<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:21.8182px">But it seems that the overly restrictive laws are more resistant to fun-poking. Any ideas there? Any great practical jokes we need? Anders</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:21.8182px"><div><div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:21.8182px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:21.8182px">Few of my suggestions are practical, and we are not going to get rid of stare decisis, but:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:21.8182px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:21.8182px">Robert Heinlein had one answer: bicameral legislature with one house passing laws and the other repealing them. (does one peal a law?)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:21.8182px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:21.8182px">Every law becomes extinct after a certain period of time. It has to be voted on again after that time.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Elect Progressive/liberals - ditto putting on the Supreme Court - this one's doable</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Every gov. body has the ins vying for their bills to get passed. Have a special session where no bills are to be passed - only bad ones gotten rid of or emended.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Strongly emphasize how much money is saved by getting rid of these laws, like shutting down the DEA, though that would not work with laws like fining cows for walking down main street. Doable also.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Well, it's a start</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Anders <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I love this campaign. The best way of undermining bad laws is to
make them look foolish. And anybody trying to defend the gun/dildo
distinction is going to be met with Zardoz quotes.<br>
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On a more serious libertarian/transhumanist note: one big problem
for many of our interests is that many activities we think would be
great - enhancement drugs, life extension treatments, morphological
freedom - currently are restricted because of overly restrictive
laws. Things get even worse as you get closer to drug laws, where
essentially religious views are allowed to dominate over empirical
evidence of harm reduction. To a non-American it is pretty clear
that American gun views are not too dissimilar from the religious
views. <br>
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Now, the question I think is worth investigating is how one could
fix the plethora of overly restrictive laws. Poking fun at the most
stupid ones is useful, especially since it reduces the "religious"
aspect - if people are not believing in it seriously enough they get
undermined. But it seems that the overly restrictive laws are more
resistant to fun-poking. Any ideas there? Any great practical jokes
we need?<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 2016-08-26 19:30, Dan TheBookMan
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<div>Does anyone feel the need to choose? Why not permit both guns
and dildos?</div>
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<div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div>
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Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div>
<div style="line-height:normal"><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" color="#000000"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div>
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<div>On Aug 26, 2016, at 9:25 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>>
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<p style="margin-top:5px">It’s hard to make friends
at a new school sometimes. Fortunately, student
activists at the University of Texas at Austin
are <a href="http://dailypnut.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e8d181bde02154228dd7d7c0a&id=132e716a7f&e=595a16146c" style="color:rgb(7,110,179)!important;text-decoration:none!important" target="_blank">passing
around dildos</a> to act as 12-inch icebreakers
to get the students talking about campus laws. A
group called <em>Cocks Not Glocks</em> is giving
realistically sculpted rubber companions to the
student body, asking people to carry them in
protest against the state’s “campus carry” law.
The university allows registered gun owners to
bring their weapons to class, yet it’s still
technically illegal for people to bring a dildo to
campus. Cocks Not Glocks has distributed more than
5,000 dildos in the past five days, donated by sex
shops, giving activists a new weapon of choice.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:5px">from the daily pnut</p>
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