Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls

• eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All those laws are only enforced against disfavored groups.

  Rich people got to engage in all the Epstein stuff and are all still free.

  Elon can create an industrial child porn machine and all the governments are totally unbothered.

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  • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Enforcement of laws is a separate issue to the existence of laws.

    Remember how Trump was talking about starting for a third term? Which is illegal in the US? Well, they intended to introduce legislation that would allow him to start legally. Problem is that if they did that, Obama could also start. Their solution? Add a clause that it had to be a third term within one term of the previous term, or something like that. Making it illegal for Obama to start but legal for Trump to start.

    That’s a law that “exists for no other purpose except to protect/benefit the dominant socioeconomic group”.

    A law saying “if you kill a dude for no reason, you’re going to jail” is not, even if oh so often certain class of mostly white guys are exempt from it.

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• Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All of those laws are unequally enforced. Anti money laundering laws are applied only to the subjugated socioeconomic group (drug dealers belonging to the working class, etc.). The dominant socioeconomic group gets their children protected, their rape victims to receive justice, their human rights defended. The subjugated socioeconomic group rarely benefits from these laws, which is why thousands of rape kits sit in warehouses never being investigated, why children born into poverty are more often separated from their parents and institutionalized rather than receiving the help they need, and why human rights are routinely violated without consequence.

  The people making such laws can sometimes intend for them to be universal, but such people fundamentally misunderstand the nature of laws, and it never quite pans out that way in practice.

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  • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    All of those laws are unequally enforced

    There’s a massive gulf between “the purpose of a law existing” and “a law being enforced”.

    Anti money laundering laws are applied only to the subjugated socioeconomic group (drug dealers belonging to the working class, etc.)

    I know you don’t work in the field because you have no idea how absolutely, ridiculously hilarious this statement is. :D

    Also, calling drug dealers “working class” is certainly a vibe…

    The dominant socioeconomic group gets their children protected, their rape victims to receive justice, their human rights defended

    Are you from the US?

    The people making such laws can sometimes intend for them to be universal

    The laws ARE universal. But because humans are humans (therefore: shitty), they’re not being universally or equally enforced.

    And none of this changes the fact that laws do not, in fact, “exist for [no] other purpose except to protect the dominant socioeconomic group”.

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    • stephan262@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “The purpose of a system is what it does.”

      You are right. Laws are universal and apply equally to everyone. The problem is the systems that exist to create and apply those laws. There are far too many cases of the law being selective in who it protects and who it punishes for me to believe that it upholds fairness. I also don’t believe it’s a fundamental human failing, I think it’s functioning exactly as its corrupt creators intended.

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      • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There are far too many cases of the law being selective in who it protects and who it punishes

        No. *There are too many cases where the interpretation of law is selective", and/or “there are too many cases where the enforcement of law is being selective”. There are no laws (that I know of, correct me if I’m wrong) that say “if you’re rich, this doesn’t apply to you”, or something like that.

        I think it’s functioning exactly as its corrupt creators intended.

        And this is where we disagree. Because, to me, thinking that every single lawmaker in the history of humanity (we have laws that date back thousands of years and are just copy-pasted between countries) was writing laws with malicious intent is some form of paranoidal insanity on par with “lizard people are controlling the government”.

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