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by seiji 4599 days ago
Rules and legislation are made for a reason.

There are laws of people ("no decapitating moron drivers"), laws of society ("no imploding buildings just to see what will happen", "no dumping your waste in the river"), and laws of multinational corporations ("no copying data, no tampering when we say no tampering, everybody must buy private health insurance, ...").

It's easier, and more valid, to ignore laws at the high end of the abstract-o-sphere.

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> It's easier, and more valid, to ignore laws at the high end of the abstract-o-sphere.

This is an interesting proposition... I hadn't really considered the relationship between validity and abstraction in the context of law. What's your reasoning behind it? Has this been written about?