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by _jal 1611 days ago
> but it does seem like a waste of human energy

Legal processes are enormous wastes of human energy on what are usually negative-sum games.

In only humans could cooperate.

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> Legal processes are enormous wastes of human energy on what are usually negative-sum games

I don’t know if this is true. Private legal disputes can be purely antagonistic.

They can also be a form of short-term adversarial long-term adaptation to new information. Court cases, on the other hand, produce precedent (irrespective of the legal system). That, too, helps guide a society through novel circumstances.