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—“Law isn’t real. Law only exists to the extent that people believe in it, and to the extent that people can challenge it without consequence.”—Rob Henderson@robkhenderson
Oh…. Wait. Law is what prohibits people like me and mine from profiting by conquering, killing, enslaving, enserving, tax farming, usury farming, selling theology, philosophy, ideology,pseudoscience, false promises of freedom from physical, natural, and evolutionary laws to people like you.
Oh… Wait. Law is the contract between men capable of sufficient violence to produce institutions that satisfy their mutual interests. It just so happens that law, liberty, markets, and the eugenics of markets is the cheapest way to obtain the highest returns.
Oh… Wait. Law is the set of terms under which we use violence to suppress irreciprocity that would incite further irreciprocity and in doing so undermining the cooperation that we call markets, economics, societies, polities and states.
Oh… Wait. The natural law of truth, contract, reciprocity, warranty, and restitution is the only universal logic of decidability in matters of conflict that eliminates the incentive for retaliation cycles we call feuds, tribal, and city state warfare that have plagued man.
Oh… Wait. Law is what prohibits people like you from violence, harm, theft, fraud, baiting into hazard, free riding, socialization of losses, privatization of commons, conspiracy, corruption, usurpation, conversion, immigration, displacement, conquest, and genocide.
So that people like me can cooperate with you instead of killing, enslaving, en-serfing….you.