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Law is always lagging behind social norms, for many reasons. Because of that, I don't think laws can change the world, this is the opposite, laws are merely ac
by stephc_int13 5y ago
Law is always lagging behind social norms, for many reasons.
Because of that, I don't think laws can change the world, this is the opposite, laws are merely acknowledging the common rules of the majority.
Technology also change the world and we need time to figure out new rules to adapt, in the case of Facebook and other giants, some changes are clearly in need, at least it seems to be a growing consensus.
- tsimionescu 5y agoLaws can absolutely change the world (at least if we take the world to mean one country). Look at de-segregation. It's obviously that the world was segregated before the de-segregation laws were passed. Of course, the laws were passed because there was ample enough support for them, but that doesn't mean that the laws only aknowledged an existing state of affairs. Even more so, the laws themselves helped accelerate the perception of segregation as evil among the majority of the population, whereas before it was just a regular part of life to many (many on the good part of the segregated world, of course).