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How do you feel about the sentence: billionaires pay politicians to write laws? Regardless of the truth of that sentence, I think it muddies the idea of where
by hayst4ck 4y ago
How do you feel about the sentence: billionaires pay politicians to write laws?
Regardless of the truth of that sentence, I think it muddies the idea of where the authority lies.
That's why I think a rather agnostic way to look at it is more interesting. Who do laws apply to and how are they applied? Laws always apply to those without power no matter the society, so it's only interesting how laws apply to those with power or if laws that apply to those in power are written at all.
- m463 4y agoSure rich and powerful people have great influence on society, and there can be bad laws. But the people the laws are applied to have due process and can appeal to a court.
- hayst4ck 4y agoIf powerful people are powerful enough to exempt themselves from laws (from the laws themselves not the enforcement), regardless of if it is de facto exemption or de jure exemption, would you say that there is rule of law?