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OC375

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6. Everybody breaks and bends laws.

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Sat Jul 11, 2026, 08:56 AM

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We tolerate it because we do it ourselves, often out of practical reasons. It happens every day. When someone takes it too far, or we don’t like the reasoning, we get mad. Rinse and repeat. Society is fragile and imperfect and subject to violent change. We seem to have forgotten that in the US, but we are only 250.

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