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    1. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 1 Oct 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      No king ever decreed it so, no legislature ever enacted it (I'm handwaving here). People did it because it seemed "right" and "fair" and "just", and so once we had judges to arbitrate cases they followed the same rule. And because judges used the rule, it became the law.

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    2. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 1 Oct 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      The Law now is tremendously complex, but by being so complex is able to decide cases which depend on extremely fine details. But all along it's sprung from and grown due to our desire to do what is right - where "right" is no more or less than what "normal people" think it is.

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    3. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 1 Oct 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      The problem (well, A problem) is that people - normal or otherwise - have internally inconsistent views of what right is. Not just that two different people differ, but that even a single person's view is logically incoherent. That doesn't bother us humans much. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    4. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 1 Oct 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      So the glue layer does its best to follow our norms, but we discover that our norms maybe aren't what we thought they were. That's okay! Law can deal with that, too. We dig deeper and extract the more fundamental principles underlying our superficially conflicting notions.

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    5. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 1 Oct 2019
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      So now we have Law that really does do what everyone thinks it should... but in untangling our true intentions, it becomes hard to understand, and yields surprising outcomes for people who haven't studied it closely.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 1 Oct 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      This seems like a Hard Problem to me. Chesterton's Fence suggests that the solution we have today is probably the best solution. But maybe not! Maybe there's some easy optimizations we're overlooking; maybe a completely different path would yield better results.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 1 Oct 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      The Average Guy is always going to have issues with The Law. They may not be competent to understand it, even in the cases where it's Bone Fucking Simple to understand. Or, relatedly, they may be incapable of thinking in terms of Law rather than Power or Tribe, because humans.

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    8. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 1 Oct 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      Eddie, Son of Richard Retweeted Eddie, Son of Richard

      But Law is important! It's at the root of what allows us to function as social creatures, even if we don't recognize it as such. That's what I was getting at in this somewhat mystical/cryptic thread:https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1177583443821154304 …

      Eddie, Son of Richard added,

      Eddie, Son of Richard @random_eddie
      First there was the Self. Then came the Other. Then came the Law. When the Self is but one, there is no need of the Law. When the Self and the Other are two, there necessarily follows either strife or tyranny. The Law is what gives us peace and justice, and therefore life.
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    9. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 1 Oct 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      Even the most brutal tribal warlord needs Law, both to maintain order in his own tribe (and lucky him, he gets to administer it! What a headache. Sorry, chief, that's what you signed up for) and to maintain truces with the neighboring tribes that he can't afford to conquer yet.

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    10. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 1 Oct 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

      So. Where does that leave us? Not sure. People suck and are dumb. But we gotta live with them anyway. Maybe the glue can be less gnarly. Maybe the shamans can be more optimally deployed among the folk. Maybe Dredd has the right approach (probably not). Facts of life abound. /f

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Oct 2019
      Replying to @random_eddie

      > But we gotta live with them anyway. {{citation needed}}

      11:06 AM - 1 Oct 2019
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        1. Kevin Twitty‏ @KJTwitty 1 Oct 2019
          Replying to @MorlockP @random_eddie

          Beat me by _that_ much

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        1. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 1 Oct 2019
          Replying to @MorlockP

          To the moon, Alice!

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