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It's the usual short-sighted, first-order effects thinking we see so often in politics. Behaviour X is problematic; target a law at behaviour X; ergo "problem solved". But that's not the way it works. Laws can never directly address behaviour X. Instead, the law creates behaviour Y in the state apparatus; Y may be opposed to X, but it also has effects of its own; and the damage from Y may exceed the damage from X.


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