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Editorial

Law, Tolerance and Society

by Rick Lewis

People live together in societies, interacting in a thousand ways, and so create rules to regulate those interactions. When the rules are broken somebody has to do something about it. At one end of the scale, that response can simply be the withdrawal of future co-operation. If a restaurant sells you a vile meal, you just don’t go there again. If they sell everyone vile meals, they’ll go bust.

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