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All law is a fiction, by that argument.
by dredmorbius 2y ago
All law is a fiction, by that argument.
- psychoslave 2y agoJust because it’s a fiction doesn’t meant it’s not effective in triggering human responses and proactive actions. In a broad sense, fiction is all we get as human minds, whether it’s representative representation of our actual embedding universe or not.
- dredmorbius 2y agoThat would in fact be part of my argument. Some fictions are readily dispensible. Most are not. What they are not however is laws of nature, divine right or revelation, or immutable. Limit on the law-of-nature bit: law is often a highly probable outcome of various power dynamics, political, economic, social, cultural, etc.
- Suppafly 2y ago>All law is a fiction, by that argument. sure but some can claim more of a moral basis than others.
- dredmorbius 2y agoBeware claims to moral rights / superiority. They're often a thought-stopping wedge to badness. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43782745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43782745>