Laws are not fact. Laws are a set of rules that have been agreed upon and passed to help us live in a more or less ordered society.

If it was the law that the earth was flat, does that make it so? Would you believe it? Just because the law says so? Of course not. Laws are not fact.

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins