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my grade 10 law teacher told me we have laws for their value not their purpose.

His example was that we could lock up a much a higher rate of child porn watchers if we searched every house in the country and instituted a draft to do so. However, this would devalue the higher structure in our law, the constitution, which protects the necessity of freedom and pursue-able prosperity.

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when i posted this i thought X% would agree with the economist's perspective (too early to tell what X is b/c i don't wanna bias the poll, though i doubt i would).

personally i agree because people lose lives to maintain (or obtain) freedoms. this is just another case of that.

can you separate value and purpose real quick though using your example?

Barron