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This is from America, where national laws like copyright are very hard to change, due to lobbyists and both political parties thinking the other one literally w
by labster 4y ago
This is from America, where national laws like copyright are very hard to change, due to lobbyists and both political parties thinking the other one literally works for the Devil. Your point about people deciding their own laws is great but it’s just not how our system works. Instead most law nowadays is made by judges interpreting anything controversial.
- mandmandam 4y agoOk, but, that system - "how things are" - is exploitative in the extreme to both people and the planet. It's unsustainable, eldritch, profoundly unjust and corrupt. Using "how things are" (fucked) as a justification to prevent discussion of "how things could be" (amazing) is fucked. I'm sick to the teeth of seeing it.
- mmahemoff 4y agoYou’re both right. It’s true the practical aspects many it hard to change laws, but I still appreciate OP’s starting from first principles. It’s easy to get caught up in debates over how to interpret current laws and conflate what’s legal with what’s (a) ethical (b) conducive to progress. However, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that these laws are merely social contracts and subject to change with enough impetus and savvy.