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Barack Obama

ucrdem

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7. Law and justice are not the same thing.

Reply to SamKnause (Reply #6)

Tue Nov 25, 2014, 02:25 AM

Nov 2014

Law is a process that produces an approximation of justice. The point is that without laws we wouldn't even have that much. They're only as good as we make them and if they need to change then we need to change them.

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