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the law is always complicated

• u32480932048 3y ago
  "because reasons" isn't actually a good justification for a system that's broken and corrupted beyond all repair
  • tessierashpool 3y ago
    not what I said, but I will rephrase for you. the law is inherently always complicated, because it, by definition, must provide general and categorical solutions to a wide range of particular instances.
  • taneq 3y ago
    No but "because 27 pages of boring and annoying backstory which are logically consistent but result in an outcome you don't like for seemingly arbitrary reasons" is potentially a good justification even if it sucks and is boring and tl;dr. You wouldn't argue that a mathematical proof is more than 2 pages long and therefore doesn't count, right?
  • jmye 3y ago
    Do you generally assume anything potentially complicated, or anything that hasn't been specifically explained to you, is automatically specious?
    • u32480932048 3y ago
      It depends on whether you're talking about an instruction manual for a nuclear power plant or thousands of pages of legal nonsense. I find higher truth value in short, simple statements like "I'm innocent as shown on the cameras" than I do when Alan Dershowitz gets on the evening news to wax poetic/philosophical about what the notion of "guilty" really means.