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RE: The Illusion of Legality

in #philosophy7 years ago (edited)

in the swamps of my mind, i have asked myself, what exactly prevents me from stealing someone elses property or even to kill someone. And a very boiled down reason would be,that i would have to go to jail, and since jails are unpleasant, you don't want to end up there. So what does that mean? It means that the Fear of losing my freedom prevents me from doing these things.(not to mention its immoral as fuck to kill or steal from a mental standpoint) But on the on the other side of the argument, laws provide structure in which, you and me can benefit while respecting social contracts like "don't do to others,that you wouldn't want to be done to you" kind of things.

Laws are a system that creates structure so that everything doesn't fall it to chaos, while most of your points seem cohesive the alternative to Order is chaos.

great post btw

EDIT: we sometimes take for granted the things we benefit from, and keen in on things that are negative, from a logical standpoint you are absolutely right, but i think that in practice, we wouldn't survive 150 years if this way of thinking would become mainstream. But as i agree with most of what you say, i think its a really great unpopular opinion

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