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It's hard for an analytical mind to understand that law is mostly a socio-political game with some vague rules. It's not a verifiable axiomatic system (although
by fierarul 14y ago
It's hard for an analytical mind to understand that law is mostly a socio-political game with some vague rules. It's not a verifiable axiomatic system (although, I think it should be quite close).
I'm coming to grips with the idea that law is mostly empirical and can only be falsified. Which means that, by design, you can't know if you are following the law or not.
- dreamdu5t 14y agoMaybe that explains why so many hackers are also libertarians, since it is axiomatic.
- JeremyMorgan 14y agoI think this why so many programmers (myself included) know absolute zip about law and usually interpret it wrong anyway.
- noonespecial 14y agoAll justice above street level is politics.
- j_baker 14y agoBy and large, US law is considered to be stable and has been duplicated precisely for this reason. That's not to say that there aren't areas that couldn't be improved or made simpler. Rather, it's to say that we have a society where laws aren't arbitrarily changed on the whims of whatever party happens to be in charge of Congress. You can almost think of the law just like you would a complex codebase. Unfortunately, we live in an age where the law has become so complex the average person can't keep it straight. I seriously doubt that this would change no matter how the law were refactored. The good news is that we do have a society where a concerned citizen can learn a lot about the law on their own. Thus, I would argue that the law is complex, but easy to approach if you want to become an expert on a particular module or subsystem.