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0 pointsterminalshort8d ago0 comments

It isn't obeyed or enforced and, therefore, is not the law. I won't read it as there is no point in doing so because it is not the law.

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vrganj8d ago

By that incredibly circular definition, laws don't exist. All it takes is ignoring them and then they disappear!

That's obviously not how things work. If you don't obey the law, you are a criminal. That's the whole point of laws.

hackinthebochs7d ago

A law defines the nature of collective action in response to certain violations. Words on paper themselves are impotent. If there is no potential for enforcement, i.e. there is no counterfactual state of collective action, there is no law.

terminalshortOP8d ago

That's exactly correct. Laws are not a physical entity and therefore their existence is predicated entirely on collective agreement.

vrganj7d ago

So if you and I agree laws don't matter, we can go rob a bank together and it's all good?

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