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No matter what system one lives in,

It must always be much harder to justify the introduction of a new law.

It shouldn't be hard to justify why the law shouldn't exist.

'If ethics is a normative discipline that identifies and classifies certain sets of actions as good or evil, right or wrong, then tort or criminal law is a subset of ethics identifying certain actions as appropriate for using violence against them. The law says that action X should be illegal, and therefore should be combated by the violence of the law. The law is a set of “ought” or normative propositions.'

From:

https://mises.org/mises-daily/law-property-rights-and-air-pollution

Now if you look at the things that are illegal, i.e. unlawful in India with this definition of the Law, you'll realise just how tyrannical the Indian government is.

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MoMeezy ϟ 𓅦 ₿ 6mo ago

this is the main problem with law. we have too many. its too easy to create new ones and most makes things worse.

sachin 6mo ago

And the fact that the method of coming up with a particular law is also flawed

If you can simply point to a news item or a research paper and justify a law's introduction, there's no end

Tyrrany emerges where Reason dies

MoMeezy ϟ 𓅦 ₿ 6mo ago

copy that, same with taxes.

thats why things are usually best when a goverment is split and unable to get anything done. 99% of the time we are better off just not changing the rules.

sachin 6mo ago

That gets problematic when the thing that's getting done if the removal of rules that shouldn't exist, like taxation, regulation, licensing, etc.

MoMeezy ϟ 𓅦 ₿ 6mo ago

ya but that basically never happens.

sachin 6mo ago

That's why getting nothing done isn't ideal

As long as doing something means getting the government out of the way, that ought to be good

MoMeezy ϟ 𓅦 ₿ 6mo ago

yes that is ideal. but the goverment doesn’t get its self out of the way. thats not what governments do in actuality.

sachin 6mo ago

Nope, they don't. That is true.

I'm talking more about strategy, i.e. getting from point A, which is a government-imposed unlawful restriction, to point B, the removal of said restriction.

MoMeezy ϟ 𓅦 ₿ 6mo ago

i feel ya, repeal all the shit is what we should push for. that can slow government expansion down.

but in the end real and paradigm shifting change comes from outside the system and the new thing eventually eats the existing system up and breaks it down.

i just don’t believe that government is going to fix itself, it needs replaced all the way down to the roots, not just trimmed around on the edges when its nature is to grow.

Condor 6mo ago

Every government is tyrannical after one or two generation because the creators of the system, hoping for a set of commonly recognized rules fades away and others, moved only by personal power and privilege take control of it.

sachin 6mo ago

As the famous line from Lord Acton goes,

'Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'

Condor 6mo ago

Yes. The best medicine is limiting the power of any entity and person no matter what

Exodia38 6mo ago

If you limit the power of anyone no matter what, you'll end up limiting the freedom of everyone. The key is in knowing that great power comes with great responsibility

Condor 6mo ago

I am fed up with the bill gates that go around with private security.