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emodendroket on Feb 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Rumuki, a prenup for sex tapes

Hell, why even bother criminalizing murder or theft when murder and theft have happened in every culture in the history of time? It's only human nature, after all.

matz1 on Feb 12, 2017 [–]

Exactly because human nature is hard to change, you have to effectively force it by criminalizing it and not everything can be criminalized.

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