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You aren't going to try to poke holes in my definition yet? I was kind of hoping you would. It's not possible for me to judge how well I communicated my thoughts unless I recieve some sort of more critical feedback. I can't resist answering your follow up question, but I would appreciate if you could try to point out problems or give examples of things you feel would fit my definitions.

Alright, my definition of a rule is this: a rule is any action that an actor might perform and might not perform which affects what another actor would be able to do. Rules generally have the connotation that they are communicated ahead of time, and that their enforcement depends on the actions of the people affected. But technically, these are not necessary for something to be a rule.

How is that?

Raw 1y ago

Aight lets get to the law first.

The definition hinges on idea of a rule so i asked what you meant by it.

Lets see then. If law is enforcement of rule, what about things that does not require enforcement per say. The rule that says you have freedom of speech or privacy. Those does not require enforcement and definetely not enforcement based on theft as you say.

Also who enforces these so called law? If taxes are involved so i infer you mean the government . The goverment theoritically does not require taxes for its operation. If lets say by enforcing rule they exist i.e they enforce their own existence it does not have to be by taxes and theft.

Also 2 private individuals can also be binded by law when enforcement is totally on them not on taxes and theft. Contracts the enforcement of which is on your pokcket and your legitimately earned wealth. Are those not law?

I am just trying to poke holes on your definition.

But, The question I posted was not for description of law as is. It can be described as a lot of thing the question could be worded better like. "What does it mean for a law to be a law" or something like that.

Ps I will read the rules part now and respond to it.

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Raw 1y ago

A law is a description of any action an actor might perform or not perform..... I get the vibe that your def of rules looks like its describing law and rights.

Rules are written(the part you wrote as "generally communicated ahead of time")set of things one ought to do and ought not to do. This is perhaps a little simplied version of your definition.

These set of rules if enforced by taxes and theft is law? also what do you mean by its enforcement depends on action of people affeced?

What happnes if this there comes a rule that says yawning is against the law! its enforcement can be done the same way you described by using theft. Would such be a law?