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Comment by Planktonne | original | Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
[−]Planktonne · 2026-08-30 Sun 09:30 UTC · link
It is a useful definition, because it allows you to talk about places where the law might be unjust.

You can't have a functioning democracy if it's impossible to criticise the current setup. This is the whole idea behind newspeak [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

[−]rayiner · 2026-08-30 Sun 13:30 UTC · link
> It is a useful definition, because it allows you to talk about places where the law might be unjust.

Unjust according to whom? Wouldn't it be better to just make our premises explicit?