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If a formal system isn't consistent, then it shouldn't work.
by ofslidingfeet 2y ago
If a formal system isn't consistent, then it shouldn't work.
- ceejayoz 2y agoIf a legal system doesn’t have some flex, it doesn’t work.
- ofslidingfeet 2y agoI have to say, I'm just struck with astonishment to encounter a truism about "flexible government" as a defense of autocratic despotism.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThat’s… a very odd reading of the above. Legal systems are unfair if they’re too flexible. They’re also unfair if they’re too inflexible. Autocrats tend to use both extremes to their advantage; all flex for them, no flex for you. One day ago you (flagged) commented “I hope [Trump] holds a military tribunal for every single person in the FBI”, so I’m not sure how genuine your astonishment is.
- ofslidingfeet 2y agoYou forgot to quote the part where I said the FBI won't stop blatantly interfering with elections.
- sneak 2y agoNo legal system ever in history meets the criteria for the definition of “formal system” that you seem to be using.
- ofslidingfeet 2y agoI'm sure their attempt to ban music with a given nominal feature will be a total success with no complications then. If the government can't make coherent laws, that is the government's problem.
- jagged-chisel 2y agoIt’s the citizens’ problem until enough of them can make it the government’s problem.
- ofslidingfeet 2y agoLaws are tautologically in the domain of government. edit: If the torture is unlawful, then the government is illegitimate. I'm not saying life doesn't suck; I'm just saying no actually citizens should not tolerate unjust laws just because making just laws is ~too hard~. (I had to add this reply in an edit because this garbage ass gestapo run website is throttling my reply rate.)
- defrost 2y agoThere's rarely tort relief for torture, even less so in Russia repblics. If Ramzan Kadyrov is properly serious about this declaration then it'll firmly remain a citizen's problem until the next great leap { forward | backward | sideways | down }.