Yea, laws are made up. So is currency, boarders, sovereignty, human rights, and democracy. Made up things are consequential.
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Made up things are consequential.
Sometimes
All those things operate on Tinkerbell logic:
currency, boarders, sovereignty, human rights, and democracy
They can all be thrown away in an instance if people (for whatever reason) don't fight for them.
There will always be people who fight against those things, and people that don't give a fuck too. But we always have to have enough willing to fight for them, the % necessary just fluctuates.
Seashells used to be currency
All it takes is one other person and you can bring it back.
I'd wager to bet that every single day, someone trades a seashell for something.
And I like being pedantic, so I'd say that seashells are actively currency.
Because that's really all it takes.
If she sells sea shells, what do you buy them with?
Sexual favors
Identity too! That's like the most important one I think. A lot of our worst behavior is in service of these completely made up identities which none-the-less help us secure access to resources.
I heard someone talking about how a lot of our rituals are these imaginary actions we take to reify these imaginary but vital institutions like identities and nation states.
Exacly this, all of pur societally functioning things are based on our exceptance of enforcing rules upon purselves. Without laws, you can't have human rights.
I mean, we did make them up. 🤷🏻♂️
There are laws. We made them up.
"Laws are a threat made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted, and the police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean?"
There's no law of gravity, it's just curved spacetime! *jumps off a cliff
There are no stories! We made them all up!
Congratulations, you have discovered the starting point of anarchist philosophy. Please, read further. It's good stuff.
There is no property! They made the whole thing up!
Might makes right is the whole of the law.
Duh
will not hold up in court
Just like we made up prisons.
Absolutely and that is what makes what Trump is doing so fucking dangerous. He is actively undermining the US government, once the vast majority of people no longer believe in the government it wont be.
Well yeah. Everything we do in society from laws to customs to fads are just made up things we go with. Thats what makes religious folks to tend toward nuttiness as it can often go down the path of. So and so rule came from GOD!!!
Even your perception of trees is a construct of man.
The checks are fraudulent and the balances have been tampered with