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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and everyone just went with it.

Technically, how all law really works at its core.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone thought me the concept of a legal fiction and I still think about it.

Land ownership, companies, nation states, citizenship: all exist because we agree that it does.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This crooked little vein of logic is what gave us sovereign citizens though, so be careful. Time may be an illusion and all, but schedules still exist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean they aren't technically wrong some of the time, we shouldn't have to pay to exist it's fucking crazy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I honestly agree with them about how dumb a lot of our legal system is. Their response is to try and make it dumber, though

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Technically, how all law really works at its core.

Well, that and the threat of overwhelming unilateral violence

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Which usually does cause one to just go with it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People could fight back if they cared enough.