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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The legal system also only exists because we wrote our thoughts down.

so does math. still nobody would argue that math is wrong or arbitrary because of that

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    math exists outside of humanity though. it is a priori. nation states exist because some people decided to enslave others.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    well i guess law was originally derived from people's ambition towards power and society's need to still be organized. that's a universal phenomenon, even if you encountered an exotic animal species on another planet, i reckon.

    that's what makes it more universal than you think.

    a lot of details in our law are arbitrary, but so is math notation and even a lot of conventions that we use (consider 2π = 6.28 instead of π = 6.28). still, the core of the field is universal, i believe.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    1+1 does not equal 2 even if you “notate” it differently. That’s the thing about math. compared to power structures invented by humans who have to kill each other over the “science” behind sharing a fucking drinking fountain with a black person.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There are and have been many different legal systems throughout the world and history. The one we’re familiar with is from the Romans - hence all the Latin legal terms - and was spread by colonialism.

    It is nothing like math, which was discovered independently by various cultures around the world.

    For more details read chapter 7 of David Graeber’s “Debt”

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