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The real problem is you have a culture where people think the law is the edge of what is acceptable. Whether it is legal or not, I would not be punting on stock

The real problem is you have a culture where people think the law is the edge of what is acceptable. Whether it is legal or not, I would not be punting on stocks that I was a judge for, it simply stinks and shouldn't be done. There's probably a lot of things that are formally legal but corrosive to society.

lend000 5y ago
It's nice to be able to blame something on a culture, but the reality is that some percentage of people are somewhere on the spectrum of morality where they are prone to doing this. I don't imagine judges are a particularly amoral group, despite being lawyers, but politicians certainly are. I'm always dumbfounded when people want to give politicians more power.
- lixtra 5y ago
  >> think the law is the edge of what is acceptable. > particularly amoral group, > but politicians certainly are. To be fair, if all politicians were always morally rooted in the center of the law, nothing would ever change. No marijuana, no gay marriage. Or more appropriate: There’s a certain overlap of laws (and constitutional rights) that blur the edge of law (here: pursuit of happiness for the judge’s vs. corruption of justice).
MrBuddyCasino 5y ago
> There's probably a lot of things that are formally legal but corrosive to society. Plus the process of corruption is slow and creeping. A generation doesn't know whats it like growing up a generation or two before, so the current state of affairs is taken for granted. At some point, the idea of a high-trust society where people don't need to lock their doors and children can just roam the neighbourhood freely becomes a faint memory and unreal utopia. Starting a family in their twenties, the prospect of home ownership, and being able to do so on a single income has already become unimaginable.
- sokoloff 5y ago
  The latter is not unimaginable to (and done regularly by) millions of people living in lower cost areas of the country.

lend000 5y ago

It's nice to be able to blame something on a culture, but the reality is that some percentage of people are somewhere on the spectrum of morality where they are prone to doing this. I don't imagine judges are a particularly amoral group, despite being lawyers, but politicians certainly are. I'm always dumbfounded when people want to give politicians more power.

lixtra 5y ago
>> think the law is the edge of what is acceptable. > particularly amoral group, > but politicians certainly are. To be fair, if all politicians were always morally rooted in the center of the law, nothing would ever change. No marijuana, no gay marriage. Or more appropriate: There’s a certain overlap of laws (and constitutional rights) that blur the edge of law (here: pursuit of happiness for the judge’s vs. corruption of justice).

MrBuddyCasino 5y ago

> There's probably a lot of things that are formally legal but corrosive to society. Plus the process of corruption is slow and creeping. A generation doesn't know whats it like growing up a generation or two before, so the current state of affairs is taken for granted. At some point, the idea of a high-trust society where people don't need to lock their doors and children can just roam the neighbourhood freely becomes a faint memory and unreal utopia. Starting a family in their twenties, the prospect of home ownership, and being able to do so on a single income has already become unimaginable.

sokoloff 5y ago
The latter is not unimaginable to (and done regularly by) millions of people living in lower cost areas of the country.