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Take a look at Blacks. Legal dictionaries are not moral works. The language of a legal system does not dictate how that system is used. It doesn't define what
by sandworm 12y ago
Take a look at Blacks. Legal dictionaries are not moral works. The language of a legal system does not dictate how that system is used. It doesn't define what is legal or not, or set punishments. All it does is provide a framework, a common starting point for building upon.
- indrax 12y agoThere is a lot of implicit baggage there still, for example in saying that punishments are a thing courts can do, and that they are a response to crimes. The paints 'civilized law' as authoritarian, vengance based, and using primitive means to try to alter behavior.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoYour logic is off. Punishments are a response to crimes as part of the definition of "crime".