Laws should bend...........
lucylespian
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...................becasue that's what they do in teh natural world.
If you study a bit of physics or biochemistry you will be hard pressed to find a law which continues to work if just keep exprapolating indefinitely. Even simple laws like Boyle's LAw, (teh one that says if you double teh pressue of a gas, you halve the volume) only works on ideal gases. When you reach extremes of heat and pressure, the law stops producing correct results and start giving you silly answers. Boyle's Law does not work in the heart of the sun , for example. It works for the conditions for which it is designed. Plenty of curves which describe functions of laws have a stright bit int eh middle , which makes t wasy to think that an endless linear relationship is there to be had, but if you look a bit further, teh curve nearly always bends. Often they do a complete u-turn and come back the otehr way (eg a parabola).
IN our legal systems, though, it is commmonplace and accepted practice to keep extrapolating indefintiely from a starting position which makes sense, and where teh law produces meaningful results, to a place where you start getting silly answers. I thknk this is why legal systems are failing.
If you study a bit of physics or biochemistry you will be hard pressed to find a law which continues to work if just keep exprapolating indefinitely. Even simple laws like Boyle's LAw, (teh one that says if you double teh pressue of a gas, you halve the volume) only works on ideal gases. When you reach extremes of heat and pressure, the law stops producing correct results and start giving you silly answers. Boyle's Law does not work in the heart of the sun , for example. It works for the conditions for which it is designed. Plenty of curves which describe functions of laws have a stright bit int eh middle , which makes t wasy to think that an endless linear relationship is there to be had, but if you look a bit further, teh curve nearly always bends. Often they do a complete u-turn and come back the otehr way (eg a parabola).
IN our legal systems, though, it is commmonplace and accepted practice to keep extrapolating indefintiely from a starting position which makes sense, and where teh law produces meaningful results, to a place where you start getting silly answers. I thknk this is why legal systems are failing.
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...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
The seperation of powers between Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches is supposed to be there to help some of this. the Judicial branch is the built in bend, there to interpret what is written, in recent times however we have a lot of self important ass holes in the Legislative and Executive branches who like to get cute and try and legislate out of the laws all those bends, that's how we wind up with ridiculous mandatory minimum sentances and "zero tolerance" (zero thought) laws. You see in the US anyway Judges are appointed, while the legislators and the President are elected, so the elected officials can go back to their constiuants and say look what I did for you I stopped "activist" judges whether they be republicrats or democons so they can keep the little ninny voters in their pockets.
The entire government systems are no longer about service, they are about retaining power and control for the incumbants in respective positions of power.