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We are going to have to create a new term for "emergency", since this one is used for all manner of situations ranging from timber production to heart attacks.
by osigurdson 2y ago
We are going to have to create a new term for "emergency", since this one is used for all manner of situations ranging from timber production to heart attacks.
- telotortium 2y ago“Emergency” is the cheat code written into many laws to circumvent ordinary procedural requirements or limits. Would you like it better if they were forced to call it “exigent circumstances” instead?
- SteveNuts 2y agoMaybe we should enumerate the types of emergencies it applies to so there’s a limit beyond a gentleman’s agreement.
- rocqua 2y agoEmergency of convenience? Or a Reichstag fire Emergency? The Reichstag fire was Hitler's pretext for declaring the national emergency that ended democracy during his reign. Mussolini did it earlier in 1922 but the pretext was more vague. So perhaps just a Mussolini emergency?
- flipbrad 2y agoFake it till you make it (a genuine emergency, that is)