There are no laws! We made the whole thing up!
There are no laws! We made the whole thing up!
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There are laws. We made them up.
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I mean, we did make them up. 🤷🏻♂️
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"Laws are a threat made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted, and the police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean?"
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There's no law of gravity, it's just curved spacetime! *jumps off a cliff
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There are no stories! We made them all up!
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There are many social constructs that govern our lives
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will not hold up in court
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Might makes right is the whole of the law.
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Duh
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There is no property! They made the whole thing up!
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Congratulations, you have discovered the starting point of anarchist philosophy. Please, read further. It's good stuff.
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Just like we made up prisons.
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Absolutely and that is what makes what Trump is doing so fucking dangerous. He is actively undermining the US government, once the vast majority of people no longer believe in the government it wont be.
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Well yeah. Everything we do in society from laws to customs to fads are just made up things we go with. Thats what makes religious folks to tend toward nuttiness as it can often go down the path of. So and so rule came from GOD!!!
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Even your perception of trees is a construct of man.
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The checks are fraudulent and the balances have been tampered with
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Except for laws of physics and math and such. 🙃
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But morality wasn't (unless you are, and may the Creator forgive me for uttering this word, a relativist), and that's important to remember! Ideally, laws follow from moral truths but alas...
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Any claim of universal system of morality existence shatters at the minutest contact with history.
The idea of morality is dominant and potentially universal across human societies. The actual definitions are invented and reinvented constantly and fairly rapidly.
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Just because people have been wrong in their understanding of right and wrong many times and in many places does not mean objective, factual things cannot exist and be said about them. I'm sure that if we sat down the entirety of humanity to talk about it, we'd reach consensus about everything major and simple and concessions about anything minor and complex (and we'd understand the Ted Bundys of the world and their utterings in the similar fashion to our understandings of people born with major genetic defects... without the moral disgust, ofc).
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Morality existed before the concept of make believe fairies in the sky.
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I mean, yes, and also morality, lol.
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Yea, laws are made up. So is currency, boarders, sovereignty, human rights, and democracy. Made up things are consequential.
Sometimes
All those things operate on Tinkerbell logic:
They can all be thrown away in an instance if people (for whatever reason) don't fight for them.
There will always be people who fight against those things, and people that don't give a fuck too. But we always have to have enough willing to fight for them, the % necessary just fluctuates.
Seashells used to be currency
Identity too! That's like the most important one I think. A lot of our worst behavior is in service of these completely made up identities which none-the-less help us secure access to resources.
I heard someone talking about how a lot of our rituals are these imaginary actions we take to reify these imaginary but vital institutions like identities and nation states.
Exacly this, all of pur societally functioning things are based on our exceptance of enforcing rules upon purselves. Without laws, you can't have human rights.