§004 » condicio sine qua non (text & video post)

[heelsandlaw]

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[seesbydoing]

They arrest people for that.

[heelsandlaw]

Exactly. They arrest people for murder and almost everyone agrees that's right. So homicide should be criminalised which surprisingly enough, it isn't in this place.

[seesbydoing]

I don't think there are any laws, really. Except maybe that one.

[heelsandlaw]

That's why I said it should be criminalised. There should be laws, so that people aren't just arrested arbitrarily.

[seesbydoing]

Are people arrested arbitrarily? I haven't noticed.

[heelsandlaw]

If anyone's arrested, it will be arbitrarily, because there's no legal basis for it.

[seesbydoing]

Is that important, really? It's not like they arrest random people.

[heelsandlaw]

I think it's important. Let's see, say that the majority of police officers comes from a world that is different from yours. In their world, something is a crime that in your world is perfectly normal, so you wouldn't know that they consider it a crime, but they might arrest you for it. If there was a criminal code that the police adhered to, you would have known or been able to know that what you did was a crime and that the likely consequence would be arrest. Without such a code, you couldn't know.

[seesbydoing]

...Wow, that would suck.

[heelsandlaw]

That's one of the reasons why I want to do this. So that that kind of thing doesn't happen.

[seesbydoing]

But if everyone has different laws, how are you going to get them to agree?

[heelsandlaw]

Discussion and compromise, I suppose. I never said it was going to be easy.

[seesbydoing]

Murder is definitely a good place to start. I don't know anyone who thinks that's okay.

[heelsandlaw]

Exactly. Most people and cultures agree on that one, at least.