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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8 Jun \ on: Buy Ben & Jerry's and feel like an activist culture
I don't know if making things illegal is the right solution. That just puts more power into the hands of the government which will just further politicize business and increase corruption.
The right thing to do is to teach your children to be careful, independent thinkers who can see through the lies and illusions.
Now, what happens when most of the parents and teachers aren't critical thinkers and thus can't teach their children to be? I feel like that's the rock and the hard place that our society is caught between
“On Liberty” by John Stuart Mill recently got on my radar via the following elevator pitch:
Mill believed that the most important thing in society was the liberty of the individual. He said that the only justification for law was to prevent harm to others.
From this I got the idea of "What if the only laws which existed existed to prevent harm to the individual?" on my mind. While the profession of lawyering may elicit an equivalent reaction of "corruption" as anyone else, I at times retain a romance for the justice system.
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Another thought on my mind from this is lawyers =/= government. Law school is just so obscenely expensive that the idea of actually changing the system with a J.D. probably rarely comes on radar for law students.
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