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Rain Water Rule (lemmy.world)
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[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 207 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It is useful to have lots of stupid laws. It makes people feel powerless and frustrated. It means the police can always find excuses to persecute you.

The technicalities of the individual laws are not important. It's the psychological effect of the whole body of laws on a people.

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago

The US does the same thing. People need to push back. Hard.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Rainwater collection laws in the US are based on conservation and fair allocation of a scarce resource.

In places that don't have scarcity, you actually have the opposite issue, where drainage might be restricted or mandated to prevent issues from harming your neighbors.

I can't build a dam on my property because it might flood my neighbor. People in the southwest can't collect water at will because it might dry out their neighbors.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

The rain is scarce. But only 9.99$!

[-] You999@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

It is useful to have lots of stupid laws. It makes people feel powerless and frustrated. It means the police can always find excuses to persecute you.

How many laws does the US have again?

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 29 points 11 months ago

Nothing in his comment says that the US is not an example of this strategy 🤔

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 9 points 11 months ago

Well an estimate from 2008 put it at upwards of 4,000 just as federal crimes. Not to even touch on state matters ,tax, civil affronts, etc.

[-] rchive@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

If we don't know the exact number, then it's too high. Lol

[-] cam_i_am@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
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