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You probably break 5 laws every day and do not even know it. There are so many things that are against the law that it is nearly impossible to not be guilty of something. This is by design, allowing these multitudes of laws to be selectively enforced on certain people. "Stop committing crimes" is an overly simplistic response.

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Actually, I'm very confident that I do not engage in any behavior that is punishable with jail time.

Claiming that our current system of laws was created in order to be able to target people at will is an extraordinary statement that will require some pretty strong evidence.

While I can have no idea what you would deem to be strong evidence, swift Googling can point you to published research from sociologists, et al, about bias and other behaviors that make the justice system dramatically less impartial than it's intended to be. Recent WaPo story, for example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/24/resea...

Having some degree of biased participants in a national system does not in any way imply that that system was designed to be able to maliciously target individuals at will. That leap of logic is simply irrational to a concerning degree.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487044715045744389...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_t...

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