Laws Covering Things That Are Currently Impossible

A system of law is, for anyone outside of the most radical college freshmen, considered pretty necessary for functional civilization. Humans are a messy little species that have proven time and again that we’re capable of some truly horrific things without oversight or responsibility. Whether we’re talking about the days of yore where your god of preference was handing out rules on stone tablets, or modern legislative bodies, we need at least some written reminder that bashing each other’s skulls in with rocks is not cool.
A lot of laws are made reactively, after seeing something occur that we quickly realize should probably never happen again — like using mustard gas on the battlefield. Sometimes, though, it’s better to make laws proactively, when what they address is suitably stomach-turning enough that we’re better off not dabbling in it at all. After all, we don’t want to end up with a mini-purge while lawmakers desperately try to revise some sort of amendment to ban a hot new crime.
Along those lines, here are five situations that are covered under the law, despite being impossible in the present…
5 Laws Covering Things That Are Currently Impossible