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You know, sometimes I wonder if some of the Romans, looking around at their society crumbling in the early ADs, asked themselves "you know, I remember we used t
by kepler1 5y ago
You know, sometimes I wonder if some of the Romans, looking around at their society crumbling in the early ADs, asked themselves "you know, I remember we used to have these things called laws?"
Seems we're tripping over ourselves these days to find every way to defeat the original purpose of the laws that we set up to make society civilized and fair.
And I'm not just talking about weed.
- raxxorrax 5y agoA huge problem today is that law isn't accessible anymore. While it is good to have extensive laws to create legal security, the fundamental laws need to understood by everybody. A high court is always needed to make final decisions on basic judgments, but they must be open to interpretation by common people that aren't lawyers and there cannot be many exceptions here. If we have laws that forbid racial discrimination or surveillance and we get countless exceptions to these, the law basically becomes worthless and hollow. Laws that protect against surveillance are worthless today. The intelligence community, tasked with protecting the constitutions, is guilty of undermining these by breaking them. Legislators are guilty of undermining them by having transgressions not have consequences. Even if you have an understanding on operational compromises, we went far beyond those. So the law vanishes, it has no value anymore. It is a broken law that also underlines how there are different set of rules for different people. So people start asking why they should honor other laws when it becomes inconvenient to them.