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Vehicle stop by Police

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Re: Vehicle stop by Police

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Postby Lootman » June 16th, 2021, 4:52 pm

XFool wrote:
Lootman wrote:
XFool wrote:Oh well, now that really is "pedantic"! :)

Not at all. You claimed that laws "stop" people from doing things. They do not.

Did I? Where?

I don't know but you do. Unless you are making the implausible claim that you have NEVER broken any rule, regulation or law then, when you did that, you were not "stopped" from doing so.

The point is simple enough. The law is one input into decision making. It does not mean that you should never break that law. I think I first came across that concept in jurisprudence classes I took at Uni over 45 years ago.

So if you double park to run into a burning building and save a child from the fire, you are probably making the correct and appropriate "illegal" decision.

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Re: Vehicle stop by Police

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Postby XFool » June 16th, 2021, 5:00 pm

Lootman wrote:
XFool wrote:
Lootman wrote:Not at all. You claimed that laws "stop" people from doing things. They do not.

Did I? Where?

I don't know but you do. Unless you are making the implausible claim that you have NEVER broken any rule, regulation or law then, when you did that, you were not "stopped" from doing so.

Now I have no idea what you are talking about. By the sound of it, you don't either! ;)

Lootman wrote:So if you double park to run into a burning building and save a child from the fire, you are probably making the correct and appropriate "illegal" decision.

Ah! Yet another completely artificial, atypical example.

QED

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Re: Vehicle stop by Police

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Postby Lootman » June 16th, 2021, 5:06 pm

XFool wrote:
Lootman wrote:
XFool wrote:Did I? Where?

I don't know but you do. Unless you are making the implausible claim that you have NEVER broken any rule, regulation or law then, when you did that, you were not "stopped" from doing so.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

I know that is obvious.

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Re: Vehicle stop by Police

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Postby redsturgeon » June 16th, 2021, 5:29 pm

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