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There are no laws! We made the whole thing up!
Submitted 1 day ago by FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
falynns@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
“Laws are a threat made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted, and the police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean?”
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
There are laws. We made them up.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, we did make them up. 🤷🏻♂️
dihutenosa@piefed.social 21 hours ago
There’s no law of gravity, it’s just curved spacetime! *jumps off a cliff
sefra1@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
There is no property! They made the whole thing up!
Acamon@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
There are no stories! We made them all up!
Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
individual@toast.ooo 1 day ago
will not hold up in court
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
There are many social constructs that govern our lives
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Duh
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Might makes right is the whole of the law.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But morality wasn’t (unless you are, and may the Creator forgive me for uttering this word, a relativist), and that’s important to remember! Ideally, laws follow from moral truths but alas…
Slotos@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Any claim of universal system of morality existence shatters at the minutest contact with history.
The idea of morality is dominant and potentially universal across human societies. The actual definitions are invented and reinvented constantly and fairly rapidly.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just because people have been wrong in their understanding of right and wrong many times and in many places does not mean objective, factual things cannot exist and be said about them. I’m sure that if we sat down the entirety of humanity to talk about it, we’d reach consensus about everything major and simple and concessions about anything minor and complex.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Provide evidence of a creator.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If the Creation is not enough, then idk. 🤷
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Mortality existed before the concept of make believe fairies in the sky.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I mean, yes, and also morality, lol.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Even your perception of trees is a construct of man.
untorquer@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Just like we made up prisons.
yesman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yea, laws are made up. So is currency, boarders, sovereignty, human rights, and democracy. Made up things are consequential.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sometimes
All those things operate on Tinkerbell logic:
They can all be thrown away in an instance if people (for whatever reason) don’t fight for them.
There will always be people who fight against those things, and people that don’t give a fuck too. But we always have to have enough willing to fight for them, the % necessary just fluctuates.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Seashells used to be currency
__siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
Exacly this, all of pur societally functioning things are based on our exceptance of enforcing rules upon purselves. Without laws, you can’t have human rights.
Hegar@fedia.io 1 day ago
Identity too! That's like the most important one I think. A lot of our worst behavior is in service of these completely made up identities which none-the-less help us secure access to resources.
I heard someone talking about how a lot of our rituals are these imaginary actions we take to reify these imaginary but vital institutions like identities and nation states.