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You are advocating a world in which high level organized crime would have a much, much easier time.

Yes, that's an unfortunate side effect of living in a free and open society which respects the freedom and innate rights of the individual which compose it.



Until organised crime infiltrate the government and they start ignoring the law. See the FBI under Hoover.

Plus organised crime hardly enables a free and open society. Especially as a free and open society revolves around a viable rule of law.


Until organised crime infiltrate the government and they start ignoring the law. See the FBI under Hoover.

Is this an argument for more government, or less?

Plus organised crime hardly enables a free and open society. Especially as a free and open society revolves around a viable rule of law.

"Rule of Law" is one thing, and is largely desirable, yes. Capricious and arbitrary regulations that try (vainly) to pre-empt a crime that might not happen, and which infringe individual liberties in the process, are quite another thing.




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