In rule-of-law, it is the law’s new clothes rather than emperor’s. The law is always a pretty sorry-looking naked thing. Takes an unspoken consensus to see it as respectably clothed in invisible norms and act accordingly. A child could just yell “fake news” and destroy consensus twitter.com/aelkus/status/
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Interesting perspective both. But I think the latter perspective comes from education. In a natural state, one is more likely to fight it in the streets.
It takes education, lived common experience, & then consensus, & time to build the rule-of-law. Outside shocks can erode it.
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I don’t think it’s education. I’ve seen educated barbarians and illiterates who instinctively grok the spirit of the law. I think it’s a social instinct that combines valuing harmony, accords some conditional/situational legitimacy to authority, and has some empathy.
I include "social instinct" in a sort of education. I don't just mean formal schooling.
I don't think it's an instinct. I thin it requires careful sophisticated reasoning of consequences etc.
Thanks.
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