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From: john@geac.UUCP (John Henshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: about electronic crime, the law and the fools
Message-ID: <864@geac.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 13:08:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: geac.864
Posted: Mon Jul  6 13:08:20 1987
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In article <6420@santra.UUCP>, news@santra.UUCP (Juha Kuusama) writes:
> Even if somebody is fool enough not to protect himself, shouldn't the
> law at least try? ( I quess the idea is called a society or something
> like that ... )

I think that it's important to distinguish between the enforcement of
the law, and the law itself. _law_ provides the framework that society
uses. The _enforcement_ of the law is something else.

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