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It's not like law was ever going to fit onto a note card, unless the law was "What King George says, goes". Even if you assume no interference from organization
by ip26 7y ago
It's not like law was ever going to fit onto a note card, unless the law was "What King George says, goes". Even if you assume no interference from organizations manipulating the law, life is complex and sometimes morally ambiguous. Even simple board games have rule books of many pages- or, those that don't, frequently leave the players wondering about some ambiguous circumstance.
Remember, too, that our legal system was designed to temper the "everything is probably illegal by some interpretation..." nature. That's why you have a right to confront your accuser, a right to a jury of your peers, the "reasonable man" standard, so on and so forth.
- pstuart 7y agoIf approached from outside it should be rather straightforward to craft effective law. Unfortunately, laws are approached from inside.
- jl6 7y agoIt would probably be about as easy as a lawyer trying to write a new OS, because from the outside it looks like it should be straightforward.
- joelx 7y agoThis is a good point, law is the operating system for society. When you think about any given issue, you run into many sub-issues. However, keep in mind this is Chinese law which at this point is only enforced selectively to back the goals of its dictator and the CCP. If dictator Xi Jumping did not want this feel good story to run, it would not have ran. If this farmer had any way even hinted it crossing the communist party of China, he probably would have been murdered and buried in his own field.