Myths
Some laws have been revealed as hoaxes:
- That "sorority houses are illegal since more than a certain number of single females living together constitutes a brothel" has been debunked as fake.
- That it is legal to shoot Welsh person all day on a Sunday, with a longbow in the Cathedral Close, Hereford. - the Law Commission have confirmed that this is not the case. In a similar manner, the myth that it is legal to shoot a Welshman in the city of Chester after midnight with a crossbow has been debunked.
Read more about this topic: Dumb Laws
Famous quotes containing the word myths:
“Two myths must be shattered: that of the evil stepparent . . . and the myth of instant love, which places unrealistic demands on all members of the blended family. . . . Between the two opposing myths lies reality. The recognition of reality is, I believe, the most important step toward the building of a successful second family.”
—Claire Berman (20th century)
“... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us—extraordinary.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“... the first reason for psychology’s failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology’s failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.”
—Naomi Weisstein (b. 1939)