01-10-2018, 05:15 PM
(01-09-2018, 12:46 AM)nebraska Wrote: Obeying the law is difficult when everything is illegal.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion.../25478695/
Which explains Article 58 in the Soviet criminal code that made just about everyone a criminal by definition.
It reminds me of a company for which I once worked: management assumed that everyone was a thief, and so said.
It was demoralizing.
...Because I am not on the run from the law and don't drive stolen cars, I have no problem with such a law.
Car thieves raise my insurance rates. F--- 'em!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.