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I don't know how to communicate this, or even if it is possible. But the question of justice has concerned me greatly of late. And I say to any creature who ma
by hprotagonist 4y ago
I don't know how to communicate this, or even if it is possible. But the question of justice has concerned me greatly of late.
And I say to any creature who may be listening, there can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions.
-- Jean-Luc Picard
- kayodelycaon 4y agoFrom Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 7 “Justice”. :)
- lostmsu 4y agoThere's an ultimate justice machine with absolute laws though: the universe itself.
- hprotagonist 4y agoi’m not convinced by that framing for many reasons, but it’s worth noting that so far it seems that more than a few “laws of the universe” end with the phrase “empirical observations will fall along the following probability distribution”, which is not how we usually understand “absolute”.