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bko • yesterday at 4:56 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> you'd rather autistically defer to the bizarre overlapping and bureaucratic rule-making nuances of a flawed, regularly-abused legal system

What is the law besides "bizarre overlapping and bureaucratic rule making"? You can't charge people on vibes like "underlying values and beliefs"


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nkrisc • yesterday at 5:01 PM

No you do the opposite: you don’t charge those whose underlying values and beliefs you agree with. Everyone has broken some law.

pembrook • yesterday at 5:02 PM

The law is not some immutable thing, in fact its something that we humans evolve over time on a case by case basis to improve and adjust.

Hence why bringing up a case where justice was not served proportionally presents an opportunity to discuss where potential improvements could be made or errors were committed.

I know it makes people who take comfort in institutions and rules uncomfortable to bring up the fact that none of this is real and all of it is a construct.

But we can in fact improve "the law" and have done so basically since the beginning of time, hence how the current law came to be. In the US specifically, this is literally the basis of how common law works (bottoms up vs. top down).