alt Hacker NewsAt some point, the contradiction of "law as something impartial" and "law bends to the whims of power" will need to be resolved.
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Wholly agreed.
The way Disney &co coopted law to pack their coffers is a travesty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Everything bends to power, by definition. And laws can’t be impartial because they’re not based in hard science: terms like “murder”, “assault”, “theft”, etc. are ambiguous thus up to interpretation (e.g. is a scam theft? If so, what defines a scam? If “lying”, what’s the difference from “misleading”, or if there’s no difference, what defines “misleading”…)
My best idea for a solution is better education, so people don’t make bad laws then badly enforce them.
"the law" has always only been the whims of the powerful aa a threat of violence against the powerless if they don't follow
Bad news, it's already been resolved.