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RE: Steemit Basic Income Giveaway (Rules and Laws)

in #newbiegames • 6 years ago (edited)

Trouble comes when, as in the US, there are very limited funds available to courts and lawyers that cater to the poor.

I cannot fault any individual who, when set to enforce laws they find objectionable, steps aside from the duty. That is in no way to say that they should be able to simply not enforce a portion of the law, however.

All this is complicated of course by capitalism as it currently exists. Someone who works as a police officer has trained for years to do that job. It's not feasible for someone in that position, someone who likely has a family, to simply walk away and find a new career.

So, I dunno, I guess I'd say strict laws/lenient adjudication when social mobility is high, with laws being less set in stone the less egalitarian your society is. Though the real solution to that problem is, of course, fix your society, heh.

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    I think that this really is one of the biggest problems with democracy at the moment. The ideal of citizens being able to test and contest the boundaries of law and overreach, to establish precedent and revisit interpretations of the law is crucial to the functioning of democracy. When this is out of the reach (due to financial or time constraints), then the democracy is not going to function properly, it is these mechanisms that are supposed to restrain the power that we give to government.

    Without these mechanisms being easily applied by citizens, then we start to lose faith in the democratic system and start to look for alternatives that might initially look appealing but might be worse in the long run.