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were you reading the tipping point?

• peter_d_sherman 7y ago
  No, but in Googling it, it looks like a very interesting book... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point Dunbar's Number (approximately 150), on the other hand, is (apparently) the approximate maximum number of people in a given group -- before formalized rules are needed for behaviors of individuals in that group. Applied to Law... you might think of it as societies of less than 150 people -- require no laws, but when you reach that 150 person threshold, then you start needing laws... It would be an interesting sociological experiment to begin with a desert island, add people to it, one by one, and then figure out when/where/why the first laws are created... My guess (and it is only a guess), is that those first laws would be related to the concept of property, specifically land-use rights... I'm guessing that this would vary relative to the size of the island and to the number of people on it... that is, with enough land per person, no one would care, but once land gets scarcer (relative to population) those laws would spring into existence... All of that is theoretical, of course. Without the ability to try the experiment on several islands of varying sizes, I wouldn't know...