Comment by dredmorbius

19 hours ago

All law is a fiction, by that argument.

Just because it’s a fiction doesn’t meant it’s not effective in triggering human responses and proactive actions. In a broad sense, fiction is all we get as human minds, whether it’s representative representation of our actual embedding universe or not.

  • That would in fact be part of my argument.

    Some fictions are readily dispensible. Most are not.

    What they are not however is laws of nature, divine right or revelation, or immutable.

    Limit on the law-of-nature bit: law is often a highly probable outcome of various power dynamics, political, economic, social, cultural, etc.