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There are many laws that have nothing to do with human consensus. Physical laws, for example.
by wyager 5y ago
There are many laws that have nothing to do with human consensus. Physical laws, for example.
- canjobear 5y agoPhysical laws and legal laws don't have anything in common except the name.
- wyager 5y agoThey have a lot in common. They are admissibility conditions under a rule system. Same thing with laws encoded in a computer system. Your argument is circular; “code isn’t law because I’ve redefined the word ‘law’ to explicitly preclude it”.