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Re: [RC] 15 day dead horse rule - FASTGraphic

In a message dated 3/11/2003 8:20:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< An unenforceable rule is in many ways worse than no rule at all. >>

This is the absolute TRUTH.  Benjamin Franklin had a list of criterion that 
any proposed law would have to meet before he would vote for it.  My addled 
old brain has forgotten the wording now (Benjamin brilliant, of course) but 
one of them was that it be actually enforceable.  If a law (in this case 
"rule") did not meet these, he was opposed because such rules only, and I am 
paraphrasing, unfortunately, "degrade the public's perception of the law and 
the lawmakers, making them more apt to break not only this law, but others as 
well."  I love the spirit of the rule.  But I believe it needs to be reworded 
as a strong suggestion - even a plea!  As a rule, it is unenforceable and 
therefor dangerous.  Just my 2 cents.
Scott

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