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> Politics is about power, not laws. This, exactly. I think constitutional guardrails are an effect, not a cause, of healthy democracies. If there is political
by lordgrenville 6y ago
> Politics is about power, not laws.
This, exactly. I think constitutional guardrails are an effect, not a cause, of healthy democracies. If there is political will to do something bad the law can always be abrogated, edited, reinterpreted or circumvented. The existence of a loophole isn't surprising. The existence of a law without them would be.
(Same applies, mutatus mutandis, to smart contracts.)