Yes so true. So many people look to the law to tell them what is right and wrong. Clearly authoritarian because the law does not decide what is right, since the law is created by a minority of the population. But people look to the law to decide what is right because the system has destroyed their ability to think for themselves
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Smookey4444@anarchist.nexus · 41 pts · 69d
Yes so true. So many people look to the law to tell them what is right and wrong. Clearly authoritarian because the law does not decide what is right, since the law is created by a minority of the population. But people look to the law to decide what is right because the system has destroyed their ability to think for themselves
deft@lemmy.wtf · 18 pts · 69d
Also propaganda. Americans has always believed America was the good guys, so how could our laws be evil?
gibmiser@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 69d
The law is rule of power. Some people prefer the simplicity of might makes right. Often they benefit from the status quo, who'd guess
A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 69d
Nailed it
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 69d
All that is required for the triumph of organized evil is that the good remain separated, and do nothing.
(apocryphal bastardized version of something Edmund Burke apparently didn't directly say, who cares, the idea is correct)
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 69d
This is also a good example of the social construction of crime.
Kaerkob@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 69d
What are the equivalents today?
A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 69d
Fossil fuel extraction.
https://hsph.harvard.edu/climate-health-c-change/news/fossil-fuel-air-pollution-responsible-for-1-in-5-deaths-worldwide/
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 69d
One of many good answers.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 69d
ICE detention centers
broad form deeds
resource extraction in the Congo
crazyminner@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 69d
Eating other sentient beings.
Just because someone's not as smart as you or has a different body than you doesn't mean it's okay to kill and eat them.
nforminvasion@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 69d
Based answer.
Omni leftists are so quick to abandon the same guiding principals they hold to as soon as it affects what's on their plate.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 68d
Thanks for taking the downvotes. I was gonna comment that otherwise
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 1 pts · 68d
Wait what says who
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 3 pts · 68d
There aren't any everything is fine the world is just and all our authorities are righteous
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 68d
I like to phrase it as "legality and morality are only loosely correlated"
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 27d
Finally, this:
Mac@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 69d
THE MIND UNLEASHED