Loosely: from 'what is not explicitly prescribed is implicitly forbidden' to 'what is not explicitly forbidden is implicitly allowed' 2/2
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do you care to wager whether that's a good, or bad thing?
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I'll bet a lunch it's a very good thing indeed. In fact, a necessary thing to keep up with expanding possibilities.
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so we're going from hippie puritan literalism back to victorian sophistication?
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Disagree. This is the old Common vs. Civil law tradition.
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talking about social mores/culture more than legal tradition
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