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Patching the compiler means getting a law passed, not bypassing the legal system.
by snovv_crash 4y ago
Patching the compiler means getting a law passed, not bypassing the legal system.
- andsoitis 4y agoOnce you've patched the compiler, you can re-run your program through it. Likely not possible to do the same for your legal case, and that assumes you can even get a law passed, which is highly doubtful. So, while you can work around the compiler issue, you cannot really remedy the legal system for your case, which could be deleterious.
- snovv_crash 4y agoAbsolutely, it's more of an 'eventually consistent' system.
- jfoutz 4y agoAh, yeah. It's an analogy, and argument by analogy always fails, because the two things are different, and you can't really hide those differences. I'd say getting your PR accepted is like passing the law. Locally hacking up the compiler to get this one stupid executable to work is like jury nullification. Argument by analogy sucks, but hopefully this gets the spirit of what I'm trying to say across. I'm going to drop that analogy now. Back to the original quote, everybody has to follow the laws. If we don't follow the laws, there is no hope for justice. Jurys rarely if ever have to explain what they were thinking, and the best a judge can do is declare a mistrial and start over. Sometimes the law is fucked up, or it shouldn't be applied in a specific circumstance. And a jury can do that. This is of course ripe for abuse, if my buddy is on the jury of my trial, maybe I don't get convicted - but there are a bunch of laws around jury selection so hopefully that doesn't happen to often.