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Except that's fundamentally incompatible with "rule of law."

So whatever real-world thing being described would need a different term.




By that logic, nobody has lived under the rule of law ever, because it's only achievable in an ideal dream world.


* ty6853: "The car is reliable."

* Terr_: "No, there have been too many serious breakdowns."

* dns_snek: "It's reliably unreliable, so it still counts."

* Terr_: "No, that's literally the opposite of what it means to describe a car as reliable."

* arcfour: "Terr_! Stop demanding perfection! The universe is imperfect therefore true reliability is impossible!"

* Terr_: "No, goddamnit! That's not what I said! FFS, it's as if [RECURSION EXCEEDED]"




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