#UnpopularOpinion: Unavoidable ignorance of a law, because your society has too many laws to learn, is a defense.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/922139323457200128 …
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...all the relevant laws applying to them as a married couple, on immigrating. You cannot expect people to reinvent all of morality... 2/
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...on their own. You could not take somebody out of the Bronze Age, wait for them to do something evil, and then pounce, while calling... 3/
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...yourself a good person, possessed of empathy and perspective. You couldn’t pass that test if the Future seized you and ran it on you.
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Let’s be clear: the attacker was missing a spark of goodness that could let him guess by himself that a scream meant something wrong... 5/
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...but it cannot be the business of Society to bust people for lacking sparks of moral intuition! Society has to tell you what the laws are!
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I think you're falling into just-world terrritory. It's possible that there is no better solution to civic stability than "too many" laws.
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And the current complexity of the world makes this seem plausible; maybe there is no good solution to, say, consumer safety + int'l trade.
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At least Canada seems to have few enough laws that a team of experts could count them. The US failed at that: https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/03/frequent-reference-question-how-many-federal-laws-are-there/ …
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