You and I do not have the same concept of American law, which by now is a fact with which you are intimately familiar. But that is because “Law” is a false cognate. “Law” is an individual word. It is a word defined by the individual, not the group. When you tell me “This is illegal” and then what happens is six years of delay, arguing, continuing to do the ILLEGAL THING, and still worse follow, then what is illegal to me and you are very different things. If this is illegal, then it will be stopped.
If it’s not illegal, then we can negotiate. How is something both legal and illegal at the same time? Such that you cannot be punished for it, yet cannot be free of it. What is “Law”? What is the thing we pretend to agree on?
I know many people with battered legal syndrome. Why are you hiding that joint from _____? Why are you hiding _____ from the law, if it is now legal or if it will be legal? What is legal if it’s a 4-dimensional question? What is illegal if it is later legal?
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