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> It won't work, but at least you could say you tried to apply the law. That's worth something. What is that worth?
by me-vs-cat 2y ago
> It won't work, but at least you could say you tried to apply the law. That's worth something.
What is that worth?
- 1659447091 2y agoThe paper trail that can be made available and/or added as evidence or a factoid in a historical record. Maybe with enough accounts people will find a way to avoid a repeat in the future. Maybe/maybe not, but they definitely won't know to change anything if there is no record of it being an issue in the first place.
- jfengel 2y agoFrom the play Lion in Winter: Geoffrey: My you chivalric fool... as if the way one fell down mattered. Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.
- me-vs-cat 2y agoThank you for pointing me to that. Still, strong disagree it applies here, so I'll counter with a quote from the second part of a three piece opus, in a photoplay long ago and far away: Do or do not. There is no try.