For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.
I am ashamed the law is such an ass
In the nineteenth century exceptional [discriminatory] laws for the Jews can be nothing more than a blunder and an absurdity.
The law against sodomy is trying to stop homosexual men from enjoying themselves. That's what the law is all about. But this is stupid. What do you do according to the law? You find two men enjoying themselves sexually. You arrest them and throw them in... prison? That outta do it.
Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country.
A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.
If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.
The law is an ass, an idiot.
Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
