Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• wizzor@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someone thought me the concept of a legal fiction and I still think about it.

  Land ownership, companies, nation states, citizenship: all exist because we agree that it does.

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  • Jinx2756@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And money.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This crooked little vein of logic is what gave us sovereign citizens though, so be careful. Time may be an illusion and all, but schedules still exist.

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      • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean they aren’t technically wrong some of the time, we shouldn’t have to pay to exist it’s fucking crazy.

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      • idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I honestly agree with them about how dumb a lot of our legal system is. Their response is to try and make it dumber, though

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• reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Technically, how all law really works at its core.

  Well, that and the threat of overwhelming unilateral violence

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which usually does cause one to just go with it

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  • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People could fight back if they cared enough.

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