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47. You are looking for a fight and doing it in a very smug fashion

Thu May 6, 2021, 08:15 PM

May 2021

Again, I am not going down this rabbit hole and am stopping this. Your tone is very aggressive.

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Unpopular opinion: It always bothers me when people say "rule of law" and "the law is the law" [View all] AZLD4Candidate May 2021 OP

Sound Points, Sir The Magistrate May 2021 #1

I'm an old Dungeons and Dragons player, so I hope you understand the reference AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #2

This speaks for me. ananda May 2021 #3

I'm with you on this. AndyS May 2021 #4

BTW, there is a right to privacy in the Bill of Rights AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #7

The rule of law sucks, let's go back to absolute monarchs mathematic May 2021 #5

I never gave you "they are all the same"-ism. AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #6

The rule of law IS great. I can't believe you're serious mathematic May 2021 #8

But you are. . .if madman control your legistlaure and your executive, like in Russia, AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #9

Right, so in the scenarios that you're describing meadowlander May 2021 #29

Yep. Exactly AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #30

I think someone doesn't really fully understand the meaning of the phrase. Dream Girl May 2021 #16

Absolutely! ShazzieB May 2021 #32

Reductio ad absurdum LanternWaste May 2021 #38

What do you propose as an alternative? Klaralven May 2021 #10

Aren't we almost already there? Go to jail for handing out food to homeless? AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #12

So the US should be broken up into small city-states ruled by a directly elected aristocracy? Klaralven May 2021 #18

Soverign states and plutocratic rule. . .We sort of that that already don't we? AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #24

"The rule of law" is aspirational. It just means that the law should apply to everyone. Dream Girl May 2021 #11

I prefer "the rule of law" being in practice rather than a nice little phrase trotted out AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #13

So wat do you propose ? Dream Girl May 2021 #21

I have no solution. . .I've lived under both and both are equally abused. AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #23

So you're just venting, then, Politicub May 2021 #27

It's venting. AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #28

Often it's not possible to equate law with justice. kairos12 May 2021 #14

Let's look at the Pledge that we were forced under law to recite until 1943 AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #15

And there's a difference between "Constitutional" & "legal" oldsoftie May 2021 #17

Chinese Exclusion Act was on the books for over sixty years AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #19

In a democracy, flawed law are created by flawed legislators. Still, it beats the hell out of Beastly Boy May 2021 #20

And I've lived under rule by despot for 12 years. AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #22

This comment is impenetrably cryptic. ShazzieB May 2021 #34

I lived in China for 12 years, met my wife, and bought a house there AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #35

Okay that helps a lot! ShazzieB May 2021 #36

Yes. I don't like it used as a cover all for injustice. Because, as I did in my OP, I can prove AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #37

You appear to be critical of the concept of law rather than abuses in its application. Beastly Boy May 2021 #39

I'm critical of using law making to marginalize, then hiding behind "it's the law" AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #40

So if I understand you correctly, and please tell me if i don't, you are not against laws, you are Beastly Boy May 2021 #41

In a Democracy, the people say they know what the want, and deserve to get it good and hard AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #42

Since you are quoting Mencken, a known Nietzche admirer, in the context of parliamentary lawmaking, Beastly Boy May 2021 #43

My intention is whatever you want it to be. I'm not going down this rabbit hole AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #44

I am looking for clarity of intent on your part. However, if that's too much to ask, Beastly Boy May 2021 #45

You are looking for a fight and doing it in a very smug fashion AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #47

Its cousin is A contract is a Contract. halfulglas May 2021 #25

Agree completely. AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #26

The law is not about right, justice, or fairness. The law is about what is legal. keithbvadu2 May 2021 #31

Agree, and as I have been saying, just because it's the law doesn't make it just, right AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #33

I prefer rule of law to the alternative. Elessar Zappa May 2021 #46

The easiest thing to do is to criticize without proposing a betterment. Justice matters. May 2021 #48

You missed my entire point with your snarky, superior response AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #49