When it comes to how the authorities will act, is one of the few places that appeals to authority are absolutely reasonable. What do the regulations and laws a

When it comes to how the authorities will act, is one of the few places that appeals to authority are absolutely reasonable. What do the regulations and laws actually mean and how are they actually in real life enforced historically? Oh yeah appeal to authority. We're literally talking about the authorities. Laws and regulations -- and business arrangements and customs -- aren't some kind of objective external thing to be observed scientifically from first principles. That's the whole error. Like if you can show a logical flaw you can prove they are't really so because they must be logical! They are socially constructed and the result of human action, by people with the power to do so, for particular ends. They are continually re-constructed by human action, they are constructed by the powerful.