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Sometimes isn't good enough. That's just selective enforcement, which is arguably worse than no enforcement at all.


No law is enforced absolutely on every offender. That's impossible. Selective enforcement is a problem, but I would never say it's worse than no enforcement unless the law is bad in the first place.


It is when it is mostly used as a weapon rather than as a law. And China, unfortunately, has quite a lot of that.


“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”




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