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DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

(Do try to speak plainly. It makes the conversation run more smoothly.)

Yes, a system of laws made by humans. But that system is itself not human. Any more than a car or a toothbrush.

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NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Dictators are both the main beneficiary of the system of laws and its promoters, because they ARE the law.

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- DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That depends on the dictator of course.
  
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  - NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    No, that is the basis of every dictatorship: to centralize political and legal power, all power in general.
    
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    DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Well yes, that centralization of power is implied by the term. But who it benefits is not.
    
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peteyestee@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Gameable I like that.

But the universe is gameable, the formation of governing is a play in the game, as is reaction outside of governing. The game is the universe.

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