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Laws as reminders of the reason they exist

by Jim Elliott
| April 26, 2023 12:00 AM

Every little once in a while I am reminded that laws are created to protect us from ourselves, or more particularly from our faulty memories, or from forgetting history.

For instance, years ago we didn’t have environmental protection laws because we didn’t need them...

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