• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    2a) and the law is full of exceptions, prerequisites, superseded, and other qualifiers. So even if you do find a rule you think applies to you, you don’t know that it only applies on a third Thursday of the month in a leap year, after you filed the prerequisite paperwork last year, paid the filing fee, and did a hat dance.

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      9 months ago

      Actually I think he’s got a point there. How am I supposed to know all the rules applying to me, if not even experts who study law for years are in agreement about them?

      How am I even supposed to know, that there is a law about something?

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          Right up until it’s a police officer that doesn’t know the law, of course. Then they can’t possibly be expected to know the laws they enforce!

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            But it’s still our problem.

            We don’t know the law? Our problem. Cop doesn’t know the law? Still our problem.

            It’s never their problem.