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I think we ended up with the law we have today because over time people agreed there are more than two types of crimes. I appreciate that physically hurting is

• s1artibartfast 3y ago
  I agree that that's largely what has happened. The scope of law has been extended Beyond violence and personal property. I do feel that once you cross that boundary there's no consistent philosophical underpinnings to the law. Is purely subjective imposition of majority rule. Dropping concrete limitations to the scope of law opens it up too anything. What is non-physical harm? What if turning down someone's sexual advances hurts their self-esteem? What if refusing to work for me hurts my ability to make a living. The point is that once you abandon a concrete definition of harm, your punished into a world of capricious law what's the times to regulate every individual Behavior on a Case by case basis.