Stupid Laws
11 min readJun 5, 2021
Laugh Until It Hurts
Government, as George Washington once observed, is like fire: dangerous, difficult to control, and too useful to live without. The only difference between the state and organized crime is that the state is perceived to have legitimacy. People obey laws not because they will be punished if they don’t, but because they don’t question the right of the government to make those laws. If you are paying protection…