Frame it how you like but the reality is that the law is as much a bludgeon against us as it is against our enemies. All laws carry unintended consequences and we shouldn't be too eager to legislate the destruction of our foes for the precedent we set may destroy us equally as well. Better to enforce the laws that already exist than to make new ones.
All laws have unintended consequences. That doesn't make all laws bad. It does make law as a concept worthy of trepidation and the process of legislation worthy of skepticism and restraint. Don't pass the laws today that they'll use to hang your children.
Or are you a fan of expansive bureacracies with endless laws that can be invoked and twisted to deal with you as needed?
My concern is that certain people, even those who I would otherwise count as fellow patriots, would pass any law so long as it hurt the insurrectionists without giving due consideration to the implications.
Your analysis of human systems is essentially perfect. They are flawed and open to hijacking by bad actors and the remedies are themselves flawed in the same way. As you say, legislation must concern itself with the misappropriation of law for sinister ends by bad actors. But, as the downvotes on my original comment demonstrate, such a guarded respect of the law is less popular than merely using the law to smash your foes without regard for the consequences.
Frame it how you like but the reality is that the law is as much a bludgeon against us as it is against our enemies. All laws carry unintended consequences and we shouldn't be too eager to legislate the destruction of our foes for the precedent we set may destroy us equally as well. Better to enforce the laws that already exist than to make new ones.
Yeah the constitution just hurts us bro, all laws are bad
Sounds like anarchoCommie bullshit to me
All laws have unintended consequences. That doesn't make all laws bad. It does make law as a concept worthy of trepidation and the process of legislation worthy of skepticism and restraint. Don't pass the laws today that they'll use to hang your children.
Or are you a fan of expansive bureacracies with endless laws that can be invoked and twisted to deal with you as needed?
My concern is that certain people, even those who I would otherwise count as fellow patriots, would pass any law so long as it hurt the insurrectionists without giving due consideration to the implications.
Your analysis of human systems is essentially perfect. They are flawed and open to hijacking by bad actors and the remedies are themselves flawed in the same way. As you say, legislation must concern itself with the misappropriation of law for sinister ends by bad actors. But, as the downvotes on my original comment demonstrate, such a guarded respect of the law is less popular than merely using the law to smash your foes without regard for the consequences.