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From: Nick Keighley on 14 Oct 2009 07:06
On 11 Oct, 23:28, Anti Vigilante <antivigila...(a)pyrabang.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:31 -0700,Nick Keighleywrote:
> > On 9 Oct, 19:34, Dave Searles <sear...(a)hoombah.nurt.bt.uk> wrote:
> > >Nick Keighleywrote:
> > > > On 30 Sep, 08:29, Tamas K Papp <tkp...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > >> The whole thread reminds me of a civil law class that I have taken
> > > >> (IANAL, but it seemed -- and turned out to be -- interesting).  It was
> > > >> a course for non-law students, most had a mathematics/science
> > > >> background.  _All_ questions from the audience were like this,
> > > >> students thinking that laws are like an algorithm that they can hack.
> > > >> The professor was very understanding and actually stopped to explain
> > > >> that legal systems don't work that way -- common sense is present in
> > > >> both Common Law and continental European systems, and you can't expect
> > > >> to get away with technical tricks like that.
>
> > > > in my country it used to illegal to trade on a sunday except for
> > > > certain exceptions.  A man who lived in my town wanted to sell
> > > > furniture on a sunday but this was not one of the allowed exceptions.
>
> The harm means that there is no day set aside for people to simply be
> human and free.
>
> You fail to see the harm because everything is path of least resistance
> knee jerk for you.
>
> It's not the selling it's the day of rest.

we abolished the law anyway. Sabbath observers are hardly a majority
in my country

From: Dave Searles on 14 Oct 2009 21:57
Nick Keighley wrote:
> On 11 Oct, 23:28, Anti Vigilante <antivigila...(a)pyrabang.com> wrote:
>> The harm means that there is no day set aside for people to simply be
>> human and free.

That's a cute twist: the harm is that people are less free if the law
restricts them less?

Try that on the little kids. They might actually be fooled by that sort
of "logic".

>> You fail

I fail at nothing.

> we abolished the law anyway. Sabbath observers are hardly a majority
> in my country

Good for you.
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