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Baconator

(1,459 posts)
Wed May 10, 2017, 12:20 AM May 2017

We are vulnerable because of our norms...

The biggest thing I've learned in the last year or so is how many things we take for granted and assume they are part of the law but are really just social norms.

Taxes, firings etc.. Etc...

Is it possible to codify these in the future or do we have to assume that anything that isn't explicitly illegal is fair game?

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We are vulnerable because of our norms... (Original Post) Baconator May 2017 OP
Codification is only of value when the word of 'law' is respected.. MedusaX May 2017 #1

MedusaX

(1,129 posts)
1. Codification is only of value when the word of 'law' is respected..
Wed May 10, 2017, 12:59 AM
May 2017

IOW...
45 has zero respect for the laws of the country

unless he can utilize them to seek revenge on someone...


So implicit, explicit, codified, legal, illegal...
felonies, misdemeanors ....

It's all fair game...

no set rules ... that way he always wins

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