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Better to leave the law to the self-proclaimed "experts" who wrote and enforced laws permitting slavery for most of a century.
by throwawaylinux 4y ago
Better to leave the law to the self-proclaimed "experts" who wrote and enforced laws permitting slavery for most of a century.
- themitigating 4y agoYou mean people who were elected by other people. There's no difference
- throwawaylinux 4y agoCorrupt people who were elected by other people and don't necessarily serve there interests, yes. And I disagree.
- addingnumbers 4y agoElected officials aren't "self-proclaimed." Election is the best possible example of proclaiming.
- throwawaylinux 4y agoIn fact many are self-proclaimed experts.
- addingnumbers 4y agoIf the definition of "self-proclaimed" includes agreeing with popular proclamation, who is ever proclaimed but not self-proclaimed? You've rendered the "self-" prefix redundant, in which case why include it?
- throwawaylinux 4y agoWinning an election is not a proclamation or any other kind of indication that somebody is an expert in law, governing, or anything else except winning elections. I can't work out how you've made that leap.
- addingnumbers 4y agoElection to office is an indication that voters generally agree with your claims of expertise, and thus are proclaiming you an expert. Voters who want someone in office who is not an expert at governing vote for someone who doesn't claim to be an expert.
- throwawaylinux 4y agoIt's no such thing.
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- manuelabeledo 4y ago> You mean people who were elected by other people. In reality, it was people elected by male landowners.
- drewcoo 4y agoSlavery wasn't a crime. And the slaves were property, not allowed trial by jury. Stopping the punishment of crimes is not halting all injustice.
- mannerheim 4y agoHelping slaves escape was a crime (Fugitive Slave Act) and an early use of jury nullification.
- RC_ITR 4y ago> Slavery wasn't a crime. Slavery was 100% enabled by the fact that escaping from slavery was a crime.
- eru 4y agoYes, but keeping someone enslaved was not a crime by the laws of that time and place.