[identity profile] graydon saunders (from livejournal.com) 2014-06-27 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Anything there's a law against isn't unheard of. (Laws are very rarely made against hypothetical conduct.)

That might be intended as an indication that Juliet is so hot everybody's judgement fails; it might be intended as Paris characterization as skeevy, besotted, eager for some consequence of the potential alliance, or maybe it's a trope for an Elizabethan crude joke.

Or, you know, Shakespeare; could be all of the above.

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2014-06-27 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
(Laws are very rarely made against hypothetical conduct.)

Let's talk about how when Alan Rock discovered nobody in Canada was actually importing the serial killer cards he wanted to Do Something About, his reaction was to double down and increase the scope of what he wanted to ban.