alt Hacker NewsLaws are not immutable. Slavery is an example of something that was lawful and then society added rules against it.
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int_19h • today at 5:31 AM
In US, the society didn't just "add rules against it". If you recall, the slavers first had to be beaten with a very big stick.
society literally had to break down for years in order for us to add rules against it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War