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Kurt Swanson <ksw@dna.lth.se> writes:

> The idea that the government writes general laws it only intends upon
> enforcing in certain cases is hard to understand if one is an
> American, though this is often the case in Europe.

Actually, George Stephanopolas was just talking about this issue
last Sunday on one of those Meet the Press-type shows.  The context
was the recent Kavorkian events.  Stephanopolas argued that issues
like assisted suicide are perhaps too complicated to apply rigid
laws to, and that the usual "solution" for this kind of situation is
to enact laws but then only selectively enforce them.  I think he
called it something like "good hypocrisy".

M.