Learning the law is useful. I prefer invalidating the law by empowering people. Bitcoin, Nostr, 3d printed guns.. Everything that makes it matter when citizens of any government decide to say "no". Anything that invalidates authority.
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i look at it rather as a duty.
and it seems like you are using the word law to mean like statute and code and regulation which are not exclusively the Law I am talking about, although to dig your american "sovereignty" and ressurect the Law of God and Natural Rights out of the devils mud its (you) been buried in, the path lies in the proper interpretation and application of the whole shebang - law and Law...
tech obseletes none of this responsibility... at best it makes it more feasible to carry out.
tech aint an end in itself.
for instance the advent and proliferation of the intertubes has essentially settled the longstanding debate about the 1n(0mE t🅰️x, but people are too lazy or jaded or even busy, precluding themselves from partaking...
you could stick a bitcoinostrnode right up the ass of the mass and gift em a city-printing gun and you still have himan nature to deal with...
just authority is necessary for civ.
It's hard to see how authority improves upon human nature. In every example I can think of, authority only amplified the power and effect of the worst parts of human nature.
I don't think that without authority, humans descend into chaos. The worst thing that happens to them is that they come under some new authority. But if the authority can be invalidated it breaks the cycle and people benefit.
so you dont have kids then.
we arent trying to "improve" human nature, but contain its potential for corruption.
things have governance and hierarchy whether you like it or not... its built in bro.
natural authority is a real thing... we give trophies to such people and tend to elevate them and their qualities as things to aspire to.
not knowing the law and therefore not using it to protect and defend the inheritence and heritage which is a moral and biblical duty is largely the reason people find themselves living tightly inside satan's iron, and increasingly compterized, asshole.