#UnpopularOpinion: Unavoidable ignorance of a law, because your society has too many laws to learn, is a defense.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/922139323457200128 …
...and only 30 seconds would elapse before somebody insisted that potato pricing had to be included so ignorance couldn’t be a defense.
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i mean if you want to go reductio ad absurdum, you're advocating that immigrants should be able to claim ignorance on any law
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so yes, we should simplify law- but also obvious that naturalization process should include when it is okay to rape people (never)
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I do think it’s reasonable to claim ignorance of a law you were not told about, or a demonstrably common comprehension failure not mentioned
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And again to be clear, I’m advocating *telling people* not giving free passes. We’ve come to take for granted that the law must be intuited!
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same- I think our point of disagreement is on what to do about not knowing this law in particular. you're saying to simplify everything...
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... i'm saying it's obviously part of the set of things that need to be known (through education/naturalization) even if law remains complex
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My guess is that society is incapable of that step. It disrupts the pretense that all the other laws are knowable and okay to enforce.
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It would be like saying robotic cars can drive 10mph over speed limit. There’s an enormous game of pretend going on that can’t be admitted.
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