hmmm... this might complicate things... if, for instance, a law sort of protects me from being murdered, how long must I not have been murdered before I lose that protection? Just an example ;)
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I mean, if nobody ever got prosecuted for murder, not if *you* never got prosecuted for murder
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I feel like if that was the case then they would actually start enforcing a lot of the BS laws they don't use just so they wouldn't go away.
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They have finite resources and a budget so would still need to be selective about which cases to prosecute
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They should be revisited in a spaced-repetition fashion— check after one year, 4, 10, 40...
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Something like this might be feasible if/once all laws are codified in databases that can be referenced in case summaries stored and searchable on computer systems designed to make this kind of check periodically, but I'm not sure I want laws that may have been very good ideas...
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...just falling "off the books" if their purpose is to prevent acts rather than punish them after the fact.
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*totalitarian ubiquitous AI surveillance state intensifies*
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You mean trademark? Just a pet peeve, showing myself out now. (But also kind of agree.)
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AFAIK, copyright no longer works that way. It is now basically eternal, since the universe/I will end before any contemporary work enter the Public Domain.
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She's thinking Trademark.
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