alt Hacker NewsOther than genuine self defense, I disagree with every single “justification” you listed. So yes, in my eyes (and the eyes of many other people I expect), the law could be substantially simplified.
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2muchcoffeeman • today at 1:49 AM
Did the post actually justify anything? Reads like a list of things that make simplification of laws hard.
And if you can’t sympathise with any of those cases, I hope you’re never called upon to decide anything involving other people.
You can disagree but no one has to care...unless you can mobilize an army.
Anyway it seems like much of this discussion presupposes the virtue of law and or has amnesia regarding its origins and its service to power. Sure there are exceptions, not every civilization has turned into a tinpot dictatorship because they adopted having a legal system. But without exception, it's those in power who make the rules. And quite often the powerful make rules that benefit them...often benefitting them exclusively.
I would rather live in a society with just laws than not, but again who settles what is just and what is not? Some people clearly have very different ideas. And yet geopolitics and world history aren't determined by the discourse.
And anyway, the law and justice are two different things. Many judges and attorneys will tell you so, I've known more than a few.