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		tt_dev 23 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can you take an ox to Oxford? The person didn’t actually ride an ox cart anywhere. They looked at the law, saw “motor vehicle” and said that an ox cart doesn’t have a motor so should be fine.

tylerrobinson 23 days ago [–]

Must one personally be subject to a law in order to interpret it?

immibis 23 days ago | [–]

You must in order to know whether you can do something. The set of things you can do is rarely equal to the set of things the law says you can do.

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