call Talmudism. Spiraling out of reality into long arguments over trivialities
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again, the root of the problem is statutory language. if our congress tried to pass a bill with definite language...
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Nope, that's not the problem at all. Congress has tried. Things get reinterpreted Talmudically. We need a king.
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"lets make this complicated as hell" is not a good business model. big law firms doing so would be out-competed.
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the independent judiciary is an awful idea, but if a King passed an obtuse law the result would be the same as it is now
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Law itself, in the way you're thinking of it, is the problem.
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Does a small tribe spend its time on this stuff? Of course not. They go to the tribal elder and a decision is made efficiently.
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and you find yourself with the trade-off I mentioned. the uncertainty of his decision will discourage economic activity.
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Oh it's pretty easy to ask him what he thinks about what would be allowed.
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Our current system certainly doesn't reduce uncertainty. Far from it
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If you haven't read Moldbug on formalism, I highly recommend it
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