RE: virus: Real ethics

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Mon, 10 Nov 97 23:52:26 -0500


>It seems that those are two bullshit laws compounding to make something that
>looked "good" but seemed to leave a "bad" taste in everyone's mouth.
>
>Have I missed the point again?

The fact the legal system stands alone on it's own one foot is well
understood by lawyers, but not, unfortunately, by most everyone else.

The law is, primarily, a function of 'precedents'. When several
precedents compound, there may be some ancillary form of 'fairness',
although this is relative and doubtful. Most often, there is a group of
constituents served bitterly, and a group of constituents served softly.
This is about as 'fair' as it gets.

Legal ethics is a complex and historically rich field. It has no direct
or non-arbitrary relation to Ethics as presented in philosophy.

It ain't no can of worms we really want to open.

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