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The law is special because everyone has to obey it or face punishment. It is an injustice if most people can't figure out whether things they want to do are leg
by Zak 2y ago
The law is special because everyone has to obey it or face punishment. It is an injustice if most people can't figure out whether things they want to do are legal or not without employing a lawyer.
- dragonwriter 2y ago> The law is special because everyone has to obey it or face punishment. In theory, yes. In practice, not “everyone”, and very much not equally true of everyone to whom the law practically applies at all, even in the places which tout “equal protection of the laws” as a bedrock principle.
- SideQuark 2y agoI suspect most people never employ a lawyer, and most people don’t go around doing illegal things. You can learn a lot by watching or asking others. Your fear seems unfounded.
- fao_ 2y ago> The law is special because everyone has to obey it or face punishment. In medicine if you get things very wrong, you die, your patient dies, or everyone in the room dies. In programming if you get things wrong, you give someone radiation poisoning and they die, a plane crashes, or someone loses days of work. Surely, those are bigger injustices.