#UnpopularOpinion: Unavoidable ignorance of a law, because your society has too many laws to learn, is a defense.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/922139323457200128 …
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A healthy society has few enough laws that you can be told all of the ones that apply to you. This couple should have been able to learn.../
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...all the relevant laws applying to them as a married couple, on immigrating. You cannot expect people to reinvent all of morality... 2/
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...on their own. You could not take somebody out of the Bronze Age, wait for them to do something evil, and then pounce, while calling... 3/
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...yourself a good person, possessed of empathy and perspective. You couldn’t pass that test if the Future seized you and ran it on you.
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Let’s be clear: the attacker was missing a spark of goodness that could let him guess by himself that a scream meant something wrong... 5/
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...but it cannot be the business of Society to bust people for lacking sparks of moral intuition! Society has to tell you what the laws are!
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FWIW I think the "stop, you're hurting them" spark is one of the things that modern societies systematically disable in children.
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