alt Hacker NewsThat’s not a useful definition in a democracy. Who gets to define what’s justified if not the duly elected legislature? I bet if you put the current Texas law on the ballot today you’d get the same answer.
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ipaddr • today at 5:28 AM
If you put that on the ballot in other states this would be more popular than initially thought by most.
It is a useful definition, because it allows you to talk about places where the law might be unjust.
You can't have a functioning democracy if it's impossible to criticise the current setup. This is the whole idea behind newspeak [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak