What happens if the Purge coincides with a game of Nomic
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During the Purge, when everything is legal, could I unilaterally pass a law which makes the Purge illegal
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Actually, level with me: is there a scene in any Purge movie where characters are hiding out and playing a board game, and ironically carefully obeying the rules of that board game? That would be so funny
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sure, but you would have to be pretty Hobbesian about enforcement
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Licensing behaviour is different from granting authority, and that's a very interesting distinction in legal theory. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concept_of_Law#Hart's_Empirical_Legal_System_in_ …"The_Concept_of_Law"
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"Everything is legal" doesn't imply "I can make up a rule and other people have to follow it"; this would probably work better in Calvinball.
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A combination Purge/National Treasure where the protagonist seeks to replace the authoritative law code with their own
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well if you can unilaterally pass laws, why would you make the mistake of passing that one in particular?
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Can God pass a law so arcane that even He cannot follow it?
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