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What if they make up new laws?

• ben_w 5y ago
  A government? Making up laws? I think that’s literally called “a day ending in ‘y’”. You may or may not have a higher power to defend you against bad laws, depending on your constitution and/or your government being e.g. treaty bound to an institution equivalent to the European Court of Human Rights.
  • Chris2048 5y ago
    Create new, targeted laws quickly. per guidelines: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
    • ben_w 5y ago
      Even though your new caveat reduces the frequency by which governments do it, this is still absolutely how they operate. I’ve had to delay a meeting with my local MP back before I left the UK because they had an “emergency” debate (IIRC due to a court ruling that one of their laws was bad). I genuinely, sincerely, can’t see how your new version is supposed to strengthen your comment — there just isn’t enough in it for my mind to see a different hill to climb: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2021/12/27/arguments-hill-climbing-the-wisdom-of-the-crowds/ https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2021/12/27/arguments-h...
      • Chris2048 5y ago
        Emergency powers allow the overruling of safe-guards, grace/response-periods and due process. It is not "how they operate", it is explicitly outside the norm, and the emergency powers invoked by Trudeau had never been used before, let alone against non-violent civilians. > because they had an “emergency” debate Was it about (seldom used) emergency powers, and what was it in response to? A terror attack? An "emergency" debate about bad laws isn't the same as "emergency" powers. > a different hill to climb The missing context is the context of the thread - that we are talking about the actions of Trudeau actions against the protestors.