> a legal system that hasn't grown past ~1790 Technology varies, but the human genome is (effectively) constant. One is skeptical regarding what global improv

> 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.