• wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      Ironically, it is often a measure of the opposite.

      Back to OP’s point:

      “If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.” ☝🏼✊🏼 —Thomas Jerfferson¹

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    This is a minor issue, but was the Holocaust legal in Germany? My understanding was that the concentration camps were legal, but the murders were extrajudicial.

    I would appreciate correction and more info.

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      The definition of legal meant here is likely more akin to de-facto legal. If laws exist but aren’t enforced by executive or judicative branches of a system then the crimes in question are de-facto legal. You’re probably right in the strictest sense of “legality”, but that’s not the point here.