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> rule of law [is] essential to modern civilization. I feel like that is a false assumption. How often do you actually appeal to law in your day to day life?
by donatj 9y ago
> rule of law [is] essential to modern civilization.
I feel like that is a false assumption. How often do you actually appeal to law in your day to day life?
- michaelmrose 9y agoI feel like we rely on the implied threat of the law 1000x more than we rely on explicitly calling the law.
- donatj 9y agoI think the threat of an internet mob ala Cecil the Lion could be just as effective.
- AFNobody 9y agoTell that to African Americans in the South when lynchings were a thing.
- donatj 9y agoIf anything, the rule of law of the time all but directly promoted and encouraged it.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoNo. The definition of lynching is that it is without legal authority. What blacks were suffering from was the absence of the rule of law. Now, true, the legal authorities were often complicit. But that's still the absence of the rule of law, not the presence of it.
- srtjstjsj 9y agoI think we rely on social mores