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These people are casting spells. As they don't understand legal text (most people don't) they cargo cult the language and make up something that sounds equivale

by altacc 3y ago

These people are casting spells. As they don't understand legal text (most people don't) they cargo cult the language and make up something that sounds equivalent and then utter it as a magical incantation believing that make their wants a reality.

fallingknife 3y ago
Hard to blame them when actual lawyers and judges do this all the time too. e.g. the courts in the US actually have decided that the following language means that employers actually can discriminate based on race. > It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer - > (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or > (2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
concordDance 3y ago
The law has exactly as much force as people (particularly potential enforcers) think it does. If someone's "magic spells" are as convincing to people as a judge's magic spells then they can be treated as functionally equivalent.
- andsoitis 3y ago
  > The law has exactly as much force as people (particularly potential enforcers) think it does. If someone's "magic spells" are as convincing to people as a judge's magic spells then they can be treated as functionally equivalent. Until tested in a court of law.
ChainOfFools 3y ago
You have just described, quite succinctly, the core premises-for-conclusions substitution also at work in the "code is law" nonsense of cryptocurrency.

by altacc 3y ago

fallingknife 3y ago

Hard to blame them when actual lawyers and judges do this all the time too. e.g. the courts in the US actually have decided that the following language means that employers actually can discriminate based on race. > It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer - > (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or > (2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

concordDance 3y ago

The law has exactly as much force as people (particularly potential enforcers) think it does. If someone's "magic spells" are as convincing to people as a judge's magic spells then they can be treated as functionally equivalent.

andsoitis 3y ago
> The law has exactly as much force as people (particularly potential enforcers) think it does. If someone's "magic spells" are as convincing to people as a judge's magic spells then they can be treated as functionally equivalent. Until tested in a court of law.

ChainOfFools 3y ago

You have just described, quite succinctly, the core premises-for-conclusions substitution also at work in the "code is law" nonsense of cryptocurrency.