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| 22.3 | The importance of law and society |
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| The importance of law and society is simply this- no civilized society can exist without some legal framework. |
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| Anarchy is neither sustainable, nor a legitimate social model, for even the most chaotic of societies will gradually normalize under some set of rules (laws), no matter how basic, nor draconian. |
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| While laws provide a framework for the sustainment of a society, wise laws can ensure a great prosperity, harmony and longevity of a social model, while unfair laws and simply stupid laws can accelerate social breakdown and a host of problems and sadness for the population. |
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| Wise laws, unjust laws and moronic laws have shaped the various nations of the world to what they are today. |
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| 22.3.1 | Wise laws such as civil codes |
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| One of the wisest types of laws has been the concept of the Civil Codes, clearly defining objects, obligations and relationships associated with property, contracts and obligations. |
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| While this concept of a civil code originates from ancient Roman times and the revised under the French and Germans in the 19th Century, it has provided a relative stability and social cohesion that has enabled cultures to maintain strong cultural values and order and respect of property rights (excluding wars). |
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| 22.3.2 | Unjust laws such as state based racism |
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| Some of the most unjust laws were those that perpetuated state sanctioned racism such as those of the Southern states of the United States up until the 1970’s and apartheid in South Africa up until the 1990’s. |
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| Racist and religious based persecution by law still exists in many parts of the world as unjust laws endorsed by the state including China, many Islamic countries such as Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Iran. |
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| While such laws that make certain religious practices illegal, or force people to dress a certain way may be manifestly unjust, unjust laws rarely cause the breakdown of a society unless external forces use such laws to promote social rebellion, riots and regime change. |
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| 22.3.3 | Stupid and moronic laws that have destroyed the fabric of society |
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| In contrast to racist and unjust laws, stupid and moronic laws have and continue to destroy the fabric of societies by forcing massive economic wastage, great social distortions and unhappiness. |
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| The classic stupid and moronic laws over the past one hundred years are the anti-alcohol and anti-drug laws instituted by western democracies upon the insistence of Christian lobbyists. |
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| These laws above all others are the single reason organized crime is allowed to flourish, why crime rates have exploded, why more people are in prison, why huge tax resources have been lost, why large foreign multi-national companies have become rich on synthetic substitutes and why so many people have suffered the chronic side effects of addiction and crime. |
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| All reputable non-Christian studies on drugs and addiction have shown that addiction is an illness independent of one particular substance or thing. People with addictive personalities get addictive to all kinds of self-destructive activities whether they are legal or not. |
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| In contrast, the proper policing of drugs, in enabling them to be taxed, quality controlled, would represent hugs savings in payments to multi-national pharmaceutical companies and the end of organized crime and spiraling jail numbers. |
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| Unfortunately, the nature of stupid and insane laws, such as those of Emperor Theodosius in 390’s CE that allowed Christians to destroy all the ancient libraries of humanity, including the Great Library of Alexandria is that they are usually sponsored and protected by insane people. |
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