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On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, James A. Donald wrote:
>> I also expect and intend a society that produces law for profit, and has
>> competing courts, and competing legal systems, and I most certainly do not
>> believe that crime is merely a difference of opinion. Indeed the reason I
>> expect that competing legal systems would only lead to minor and infrequent
>> violent conflict, is precisely because I believe that crime a fact, not a
>> preference, or at least is a fact for any crime we are likely to care
>> enough about to start shooting.
Jim Choate
>See, we have a difference of opinion over what a 'crime' is already. I
>contend that a 'crime' in a completely culture-neutral society such as a
>C-A-C-L based one can only be a difference of opinion, basic fundamental
>religious belief.
So where is this culture where you can merrily walk off with someone's
stuff, or assault someone, without suffering violent consequences,
consequences that everyone in the society will regard as legitimate?
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of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this
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