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> The rule of law might not seem always fair, but it hampers the powerful much more than the weak. As an example: None of the billionaires in my city have set u
by chc 11y ago
> The rule of law might not seem always fair, but it hampers the powerful much more than the weak. As an example: None of the billionaires in my city have set up their own duchy pressed us into an army, enforcing their own laws.
And the poor haven't sacked them or hauled them to the guillotine. I still feel like the rich are winning here.
> Even the poor in my city have access to clean water and the library system.
Were there attempts to take those away that were successfully stopped in court? Because otherwise, you seem to be hand-waving more than arguing.
- ptaipale 11y agoI don't consider it "winning" that people aren't hauled to the guillotine. I consider it their basic human right. This reminds me, BTW, how lots of people have recently, after the terrorist attacks in Paris, urged us to sing La Marseillaise, to express sympathy to the French. That is slightly funny: the lyrics are rather blood-curling. Do you hear, in the countryside, the roar of those ferocious soldiers? They're coming right into your arms to cut the throats of your sons, your women! To arms, citizens, form your battalions, Let's march, let's march! Let an impure blood water our furrows! (Repeat) I mean, it looks like people confuse it with All You Need Is Love which just steals the intro from it.
- chc 11y ago> I don't consider it "winning" that people aren't hauled to the guillotine. I consider it their basic human right. Well, duh. Did you miss the comment I was replying to, which suggested that the poor are better served by our system of laws than the rich are because the rich don't press them into servitude and they have clean water?