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What's the difference between codifying anti-discrimination laws and codifying laws against other things, such as shoplifting?
by trehalose 3y ago
What's the difference between codifying anti-discrimination laws and codifying laws against other things, such as shoplifting?
- Supermancho 3y agoThere isn't one. Written laws allow individuals to defend against prosecution by referencing the letter of the law, and wrongfully persecute by recontextualizing similar acts as parallels. I don't think it's a bad trade to have a common reference, despite these weaknesses. Note, I support the idea of adding castes to common discrimination clauses. That is incidental to the issue of codification, which I am interested in.
- mortureb 3y agoIf you make categories by law and afford certain benefits to those categories then people will continue to adopt them and perpetuate it. Caste is complex, build over many generations. It is however very easy to destroy by just forgetting the things people use to categorize others and would be nearly impossible to rebuilt in the modern world as it was a system built for local communities where people intimately knew each other for generations. The goal should be breaking and forgetting knowledge that let’s people distinguish castes in the first place. Shoplifting is shoplifting. No one is going to “forget” you can steal things so you need explicit laws forbidding it in perpetuity.