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   Radical_EgoCom (radical_egocom@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:52 JST Radical_EgoCom

   "The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."

   Peter Kropotkin

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     SocialistStan (socialiststan@mymastadon.link)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:55 JST SocialistStan

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     @Radical_EgoCom This is the distinction between malum in se, 'wrong in itself', like child abuse, and malum prohibitum, 'wrong because an authority says so', like not cutting your grass.

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