I think that laws are rules set by people in power as an effort to control an aspect of the population. Is that not a reasonable definition? — MonfortS26
No, I don't think that's reasonable. Laws are put in place to protect the defined rights and freedom of individuals. Therefore they are not intended to control the population, but to ensure that each member of the population is best able to exercise one's own freedom. — Metaphysician Undercover
At some point I read that there is no way to define law, or at least that is an opinion that is held. I disagree though. I think that laws are rules set by people in power as an effort to control an aspect of the population. Is that not a reasonable definition? — MonfortS26
I think that laws are rules set by people in power as an effort to control an aspect of the population. — MonfortS26
It is easy to ignore a law but people will obey laws often completely unskeptically. I think that in order to make a law happen you have to join in a game and play a role (based on whatever societies current narrative is).
I believe that the idea that laws are to regulate society is far to benevolent an interpretation. I don't think that we have utopian societies in which laws simply regulate it for everyone's benefits. So I suppose I would personally describe a law as a linguistic tool that can be utilised in many different ways.
I don't think laws need to want to control people. A lot of them are simply pragmatic such as the traffic lights, to avoid chaos. Laws or rules can be like a framework for functioning. I think that when laws are reified (made as though concrete) then they become coercive and irrational. — Andrew4Handel
Rules can be broken, laws can't. — Anthony
You are free to disregard any particular law if you think that obedience to it is a voluntary game, and you are prepared to live with the consequences. — geospiza
There are a huge number of laws most of which most people are unaware of so it is only in certain specific situations where you have to obey a law. — Andrew4Handel
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