Greetings good citizen, I am not the first to voice dismay over fact that the only thing protecting the public from tyranny is 'men, both good and true'.
Seems the weasels among us did everything they could to avoid drawing clear lines where, as we so desperately need, the individual would understand what they could and could not do.
Remember, our legal system is not only based on but guided by a freakish belief in 'goodness'.
Like truth, goodness is 'relative' (and often heavily 'parsed'.)
Do we 'clarify' the laws or do we continue to rely on 'goodness' and the decidedly uneven outcomes it produces?
Under ASP the laws will be few and clear. Spite laws will vanish (along with all traffic violations) The rules won't vanish, just the fake revenue they generated along with the morons they kept employed.
The roads have always been a crapshoot. [Hope for the best but expect the worst.]
The current system was born out of outsized 'faith' in a non-existent entity contrasted against the hellaciously petty outcomes of the past. Judges were intended to 'correct' the loosey-goosey laws and winnow justice out of vague balderdash but alas, judges are human and spiteful too. [That is why the won't exist in a 'just' future.]
The law is what it is and it means what the typical individual understands it to mean...now do you see the evil lurking in our decidedly convoluted law-making?
How did we get here?
[Bueller? Anyone? Bueller?]
Because we listened to those who speak for Spirit in the Sky.
If GOD shows us the way it MUST be just! [Leaving aside the obvious fact that nobody has ever laid eyes upon this imaginary, all powerful being.]
Another 'strike' against the alleged almighty. Were it 'all powerful' we wouldn't be able to violate it's will!
Naturally this brings us to the irresistible force vs immovable object conundrum which pretty much proves GOD can't exist!
Yet we allow those who claim to speak for it to, er, influence our judgement.
Sing the refrain, children...(louder, I can't hear you but more importantly you can't hear you!)
If we return to our original theory that humanity on this planet is a case of abandoned tools, we need clear directions (laws) to guide our actions.
Spirit in the sky handed down laws but the criminals in charge had to alter those 'commandments' to save themselves from prosecution.
In this respect, ASP can be viewed as a return to basics. 'Thou shalt not kill' coupled with 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'...( I was tempted to use 'the shorthand' but you know jerky would point at the instance and use it as a pass because I wrote it ONCE!)
But the 'laws' could be winnowed down to just a handful simply by living 'responsibly'.
Don't need the cops or the courts to make the world 'comply'. If you are a f-up, the world knows it and you will reap what you sow. If you are the salt of the earth then you will be rewarded with respect and admiration. Pretty simple, really and that's the way we humans like it.
If at first you don't succeed you're pretty much average...and if you can't get out of your own way, well shit happens but we know when you are dogging it and when you are struggling to do the right thing.
The thing to keep in mind, Head, is 'we SEE you'. Don't pretend we don't.
What you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying...so ACT accordingly.
This is where that 'do unto others' thing kicks your ass.
Life is difficult enough without blaming everyone but yourself for your mistakes/dissatisfaction with how life has treated you.
We don't need no stinkin' badges...
Until next time, Head.
Gegner
Seems the weasels among us did everything they could to avoid drawing clear lines where, as we so desperately need, the individual would understand what they could and could not do.
Remember, our legal system is not only based on but guided by a freakish belief in 'goodness'.
Like truth, goodness is 'relative' (and often heavily 'parsed'.)
Do we 'clarify' the laws or do we continue to rely on 'goodness' and the decidedly uneven outcomes it produces?
Under ASP the laws will be few and clear. Spite laws will vanish (along with all traffic violations) The rules won't vanish, just the fake revenue they generated along with the morons they kept employed.
The roads have always been a crapshoot. [Hope for the best but expect the worst.]
The current system was born out of outsized 'faith' in a non-existent entity contrasted against the hellaciously petty outcomes of the past. Judges were intended to 'correct' the loosey-goosey laws and winnow justice out of vague balderdash but alas, judges are human and spiteful too. [That is why the won't exist in a 'just' future.]
The law is what it is and it means what the typical individual understands it to mean...now do you see the evil lurking in our decidedly convoluted law-making?
How did we get here?
[Bueller? Anyone? Bueller?]
Because we listened to those who speak for Spirit in the Sky.
If GOD shows us the way it MUST be just! [Leaving aside the obvious fact that nobody has ever laid eyes upon this imaginary, all powerful being.]
Another 'strike' against the alleged almighty. Were it 'all powerful' we wouldn't be able to violate it's will!
Naturally this brings us to the irresistible force vs immovable object conundrum which pretty much proves GOD can't exist!
Yet we allow those who claim to speak for it to, er, influence our judgement.
Sing the refrain, children...(louder, I can't hear you but more importantly you can't hear you!)
If we return to our original theory that humanity on this planet is a case of abandoned tools, we need clear directions (laws) to guide our actions.
Spirit in the sky handed down laws but the criminals in charge had to alter those 'commandments' to save themselves from prosecution.
In this respect, ASP can be viewed as a return to basics. 'Thou shalt not kill' coupled with 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'...( I was tempted to use 'the shorthand' but you know jerky would point at the instance and use it as a pass because I wrote it ONCE!)
But the 'laws' could be winnowed down to just a handful simply by living 'responsibly'.
Don't need the cops or the courts to make the world 'comply'. If you are a f-up, the world knows it and you will reap what you sow. If you are the salt of the earth then you will be rewarded with respect and admiration. Pretty simple, really and that's the way we humans like it.
If at first you don't succeed you're pretty much average...and if you can't get out of your own way, well shit happens but we know when you are dogging it and when you are struggling to do the right thing.
The thing to keep in mind, Head, is 'we SEE you'. Don't pretend we don't.
What you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying...so ACT accordingly.
This is where that 'do unto others' thing kicks your ass.
Life is difficult enough without blaming everyone but yourself for your mistakes/dissatisfaction with how life has treated you.
We don't need no stinkin' badges...
Until next time, Head.
Gegner
Remember, our legal system is not only based on but guided by a freakish belief in 'goodness'.
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