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On the other hand if you are going to make a rule of judges like this it might end up having transcendental claims of a similar nature. Come to think of it, "Law" used to etymologically mean, "Things that are settled."
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03-03-2018, 01:34 AM | #152 | |
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By the by, it was for (E)'s military sci-fi setting thread, and I was looking at a kritarchy as the system of government for an isolated space station, but didn't get much further than that. I guess you'd need some established book or body of law that the ruling judges dispassionately govern from. Or perhaps some philosophy of "natural law" that everyone implicitly accepts.
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03-03-2018, 05:46 AM | #153 | |
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Believing you need new laws every year is historically a weird outlier.
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03-03-2018, 06:51 PM | #154 | |
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In other words, no matter how little complexity people might prefer, the reality is that voters and their servitors, given the chance, tend to fiddle with the existing rules often enough to make it essentially impossible for a non-expert to know what the current state of the art of Law is at any given time. A fairly predictable result of this is that any old-fashioned character who imagines that Law and Philosophy (Ethics) or Theology (Preferred Religion) share any kind of framework with Law will quickly be disabused of that entirely false notion by a session or two of witnessing the actual Law skill functioning in the setting.
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03-04-2018, 08:52 AM | #155 | |
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03-04-2018, 09:35 AM | #156 | |
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I'm not sure we could prove any notion false by imaginarily engaging with imaginary laws in an imaginary setting. The only thing we'd prove is that we haven't bothered with all the possible legal implications of a particular set of imaginary laws, and are probably more interested in some roughly sketched social and adventure implications of a particular "weird society of the week". *I may not have actually GMed for... over 2 decades? As such, said players are also in fact imaginary.
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03-04-2018, 11:01 AM | #157 | |
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03-04-2018, 05:57 PM | #158 |
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Oooh! Who published it?
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03-05-2018, 02:26 AM | #159 |
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03-05-2018, 05:13 AM | #160 | |
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The parts that are "public-facing" codify what perhaps once were social custom and unspoken expectation so that I can purchase a good from a company half-the country away via the internet, never speaking to another human being, and have confidence that the good will arrive in a reasonable time, as described, and be not unexpectedly dangerous and the seller can sell/ship a good half-the-country away and have confidence in being paid, and that the good will get there. It really is an amazing system. Are there weird bits, hold-overs from past eras, pieces that don't fit together , kludges, duct-tape over those kludges, -- yup. But remember that if the problem goes to court it gets adjudicated by people who, for the most part, genuinely want to get a right and fair result. Again, how often they succeed is a matter of debate, but the bulk of the system's actors do want to live up to its aspirations. |
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