• roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml
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    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.

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        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.

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          means groundwater doesn’t get replenished.

          To then be extracted by greedy corporation.

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      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?