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[deleted] OP t1_jcao0ke wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in If it’s illegal for landlords to charge application fee in MA, how can we get that back? by [deleted]

Opinion:

> So it’s Ok for people to break the law if they’re taking advantage of something, since the other party benefits from it too? 🤔

Not sure, if trolling, since that seems like a loaded question. But let me put it this way. It is technically still illegal to sneeze in public by the road. The old law was made so as not to scare horses on the road. It is not enforced, and people who sneeze out on the street are technically still breaking the law.

Laws are only as good as people are willing to accept and willing to enforce. You were willing to break the law, as was the landlord, and you are not going to report this either.

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[deleted] OP t1_jcapdyu wrote

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[deleted] OP t1_jcaq1wz wrote

Opinion:

I would suggest you speak to a lawyer if you are that concerned about it. I am not going to provide legal advice.

If this is illegal, do I think that's a bad thing you are experiencing? Yes. But your choices were to either keep looking elsewhere or accept it. You chose to accept, and from the sound of it, so have many others. The world is what we make of it, for better or for worse.

And I'll end my thought by saying, that silly old law, become a silly old law, because the world accepted it as such.

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