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>societies where laws are supreme (no-one is above the law), and where the same crime results in the same sentence, no matter who you are... If that's the defi

>societies where laws are supreme (no-one is above the law), and where the same crime results in the same sentence, no matter who you are... If that's the definition then, um, yeah, I think "bell curve" is a very diplomatic term for the de facto reality in Western Nations. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the de facto reality in all nations, Western or not, falls well short of this rule of law ideal. I've no evidence to support the following suspicion, but I think whenever humans are involved in a system, all of those well known human failings we have are going to manifest themselves in that system's output. I don't think there is a way around it actually. In practice, there probably is no society governed by rule of law if equal treatment is going to be your measuring stick. I honestly don't think such a place exists.

seanmcdirmid 7y ago
Rule of law isn’t a binary. It is an ideal that a country aspires to to whatever degree. Thing is, the current Chinese government sees “rule of law” completely undesirable as a concept, judiciary must acquiesce to the official class (which is synonymous with the party), whose opinion is the only one that matters.
- maxheadroom 7y ago
  >...judiciary must acquiesce to the official class (which is synonymous with the party), whose opinion is the only one that matters. Since we've gone down this rabbit-hole, doesn't that mean or infer that the states is no longer a "rule of law" country, since the current idyllic seems to be overturning laws - based purely on political alignment (e.g.: the "sudden rash" of states banning abortion because the end-goal is to overturn Roe v. Wade)?