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I would be hard pressed to find any democratic government that passed retro-active laws. It's a pillar of modern democracies that the effects of some law, can
by jbmorgado 10y ago
I would be hard pressed to find any democratic government that passed retro-active laws.
It's a pillar of modern democracies that the effects of some law, can only be applied to future events not to past ones.
What ETH did, was create new laws and then proceed to apply them to previous actions. Very untrustworthy indeed.
- drcode 10y agoDemocracies do this all the time, like for slave emancipation, eminent domain, redistricting, etc.
- jbmorgado 10y agoNo, that's not like that at all. In the examples you made, you are giving people MORE rights from THAT point onwards. In the ETH case, you are creating a law to REVERT a previous deal. Democracies don't do that.