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> Law is about persuasion... Yep, we have an adversarial, common law system. So we measure our lawyers on their ability to manipulate regardless of the moral o

> Law is about persuasion... Yep, we have an adversarial, common law system. So we measure our lawyers on their ability to manipulate regardless of the moral or social outcome. I don't think this is a facet of law in general, so much as a legal system that hasn't grown past ~1790.

smitty1e 4y ago
> a legal system that hasn't grown past ~1790 Technology varies, but the human genome is (effectively) constant. One is skeptical regarding what global improvement is possible. Certainly individual optimizations (maturity) are worth pusuing. But some teleolgical societal endpoint (Progress) that we should pursue could prove a total bugaboo.