tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post8524437952008308096..comments2024-03-28T17:44:11.289+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: What is Law? - in the modern secular Leftist state?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-43772069355968429852014-11-11T15:37:07.981+00:002014-11-11T15:37:07.981+00:00Like many other organizations, the Law has been in...Like many other organizations, the Law has been infiltrated, subverted, and destroyed from the inside. Thus you can still find examples of the original aims, evaluation criteria, and organizing principles of the law on the books. Yet it is not hard to find examples of Leftist aims, evaluation criteria, and organizing principles either. All of them involve the transfer of wealth from the politically unconnected to the politically connected, usually for some ostensibly "good" purpose.JPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-43887192916606896602014-11-11T01:42:02.552+00:002014-11-11T01:42:02.552+00:00The law today in the west is the expression of wha...The law today in the west is the expression of what I call "the Good", which is an amorphous thing, but may be thought of as all that is politically correct. The Good is not anything specific, but is mostly what good people want. Leftism is very antinomian- if you are a good person, whatever you want is good, and if you are a bad person, whatever you want is bad, even if is exactly the same as what a good person wants. "Good" people roughly are white leftists and non-whites.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-3800652485543495512014-11-10T18:00:13.799+00:002014-11-10T18:00:13.799+00:00@JP - Well, that is what it does - but I would onl...@JP - Well, that is what it does - but I would only count it as a purpose if it is an explicit aim, evaluation criterion, and organizing principle. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-74015982319470476912014-11-10T15:45:57.084+00:002014-11-10T15:45:57.084+00:00The purpose of law (and politics) today is to tran...The purpose of law (and politics) today is to transfer wealth from the politically unconnected to the politically connected. Among the reasons laws constantly change and contradict each other is that who is politically connected changes over time, and different politically connected groups seek to tilt the legal playing field in their favor.JPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-5111079474231362822014-11-10T09:21:50.688+00:002014-11-10T09:21:50.688+00:00There is also the way the law is enforced: Anarcho...There is also the way the law is enforced: Anarcho-Tyranny. The average citizen suffers under layers of bureaucracy and is threatened for <i>problematic</i> expression. Excessive policing of minor (or no) transgression, tyrannical behaviour. At the same time, actual crime; violent rapes, muders and robberies go deliberately underreported, entirely covered up or when finally punished the punishment is so light so as to cast mockery on the word. Anarchy.Luqmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-62086390428219074252014-11-10T08:07:50.278+00:002014-11-10T08:07:50.278+00:00The distinction F.A. Hayek makes between law and l...The distinction F.A. Hayek makes between law and legislation may be useful for thinking about this more. Briefly, law is an emergent/organic order (a cosmos in his terminology) and reflects the values of the people. In this sense, law is customary. Legislation is that artificial written stuff (a taxis -human-imposed order). Legislation begins as an attempt to clarify the inherent uncertainties of law (like the mercy you mention). It ends, apparently, by utterly subsuming the law. And so, we are a people with far more legislation and far less law (more disorder, collapse of social trust etc.).anon5noreply@blogger.com