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I kinda want to help make this a reality.. Even though I believe that a solely “mechanical”/“logical”interpretation of laws, misses the point in some really im

I kinda want to help make this a reality.. Even though I believe that a solely “mechanical”/“logical”interpretation of laws, misses the point in some really important ways. Approaching law/justice systems as a computer system to be manipulated, usually results in the judge seeing through the manipulation and cracking down on it, while still enforcing the spirit of the law rather than adhering to mechanical minutiae.. (Modulus the differences between common law and civil law jurisdictions, which probably colours my view)

kazen44 6y ago
contradictions also exist in civil law systems (ofcourse). But seem to be far less... cloudy then common law systems. Most contradictions in civil law seem to either be from really old law (think, pre french revolution/napoleonic period) or from weird edge cases which get covered by two laws which contradict themselves. The first one is usually not resolved because it is just straight up ignored. There was a famous example of this a couple of years ago about a law which prohibited people from carrying swords/knives inside city walls.