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That's exactly why that won't ever happen. These laws are named for a reason, the bigger part of which is simply to confuse the ignorant who have not taken the time to look beyond the name.


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Why do all American laws have such stupid names?

I swear, you can predict the quality of a law as the inverse of how good the name sounds.

If this law were going to limit sex trafficking, it would have a name like "Revisions to the Prosecution of Certain Interstate Crimes". But no, it's got a big, gaudy name that poisons the well on any opposition whatsoever. So, predictably, it will either endanger innocents or restrict basic rights. It's like god damn clockwork.


There is absolutely no reason for a law like this to ever come into effect.

The OP implied that such a law doesn't exist, but there's nothing inherently unconstitutional about a new legislative act to enforce the concept.

> That will never stand up in court.

What's your point or objection to a hypothetical future?


May these laws never be passed.

Which will obviously go precisely nowhere. Maybe they are a handful of people in Congress saying that, but it will never come anywhere near being law and even if it did it would be struck down immediately.

You seem to have trouble understanding. No one questioned that such stupid laws do in fact exists. I was explaining why they _should_ not.

That law doesn’t exist. Why would such a law exist?

I guess this is a legislative problem that will never be solved for obvious reasons.

Yeah, those are the laws that shouldn't exist.

I can't see a law like that passing in the US for generations.

There are all kinds of jurisdictions that will never allow this.

They?

Do you realize there is no actual such law? And you are already calling "them" names for something that doesn't exist?


Don't make too much sense or they'll make a law against it

How does anything like that ever become law? Or are you just winding us up?

This kind of law isn't even at the level of those laws that reduce people's belief in the importance of laws. It is the kind of law that people aren't even aware of because it is so far outside the realm of something anyone could possibly legislate or enforce that it never enters into their mind that someone could have tried to actually write a law about it.

Probably because it's already written in the laws?

Basically it's not the law yet and may never be the law.

Such laws just can't be made to work.

Laws can't fight reality.

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