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you got it the other way around, it is "the law is equal for everyone" not "everyone is equal for the law" addndum: law is neither gender nor race neutral. pr
by LoSboccacc 7y ago
you got it the other way around, it is "the law is equal for everyone" not "everyone is equal for the law"
addndum:
law is neither gender nor race neutral. pretending everyone is equal under the law is just wishful thinking. and yes the law corpus is the same for everyone... as long as you are in a specific place, because not even that is a given, since not everyone lives in the same place under the same law.
you'd expect this community to have some spark in it but no, people around here don't seem to engage in critical thinking anymore.
- patentatt 7y agoI fully comprehend the lexical and logical distinction you’re making ... but I’d push back that these two things are one in the same.
- LoSboccacc 7y agoit's evident that people are not equal under the law. minors have a different set of rights, women enjoy a different set of protections, minorities have their own special laws (heck, you have a federal law titled "Indian Gaming Regulatory Act")
- boomlinde 7y agoNot according to the UDHR
- captainredbeard 7y agoNot everyone receives UDHR info as canon.
- azernik 7y ago"Equal under the law".
- pluma 7y agoBasically the law is implemented by people and people are subjected to it by those people. There's a lot of neutrality in the rules but in the end personal biases and privileges can creep in at any point. If judges (and juries) were 100% rational, objective and unbiased, lawyers and attorneys wouldn't exist. But that's an impossibility even technology can't solve.
- lordnacho 7y agoThe problem isn't that there's bias, the problem is the bias is predictable and exploitable. Suppose every lawyer was paid the same, and cases where given by lottery instead of by auction? Just a thought, not saying that doesn't have problems either.
- dmitrygr 7y agoThere used to be a joke about that. Everyone is equal under law. Both the poor and the rich are legally forbidden from panhandling under bridges.