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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 23 June | 357 comments (357 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

You cannot impose values.

Yet that is what the law does every day in many different areas of society. Although it doesn't function by adjusting the values in people's brains, rather the law functions by ex post facto punishment if a person deviates explicitly from what is listed as acceptable in the law books.

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$E(X_t|F_s) = X_s,\quad t > s$

by martingale on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 09:54:39 PM EST
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Re: not incapable (none / 1)

So the law isn't imposing values, it's punishing behaviour.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 02:13:12 AM EST
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Re: not incapable (none / 1)

The effect is the same. The values of the Republic/Monarchy/etc are policed, which is the only thing that matters to the state.

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$E(X_t|F_s) = X_s,\quad t > s$

by martingale on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 02:34:50 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 23 June | 357 comments (357 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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