This far in and no popcorn GIF?
Selective enforcement has a rich history of philosophical & political debate.
"Corruptisima republica plurimae leges." Tacitus (The more corrupt a republic, the more laws.)
“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
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Alexis de Tocqueville
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
- Abraham Lincoln
"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it"
- Theodore Roosevelt
An article about HOA selective enforcement.
A bunch of great quotes about liberty, government, and the like.