Thursday, July 11, 2013

Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones (slashdot)

It should be possible, without a law degree, to deduct the laws of a society directly from common sense. If that is not possible, law makers have failed. Full stop. Problem now is, that whenever a hole in a legislation is found, it is patched with more text, not rewritten. This creates a demand for people who can read obscure texts (lawyers, who are otherwise completely useless to society), but more dangerously, it also creates a system in which you can't be sure you are following the law, even if you're just going about your business.

And once someone breaks one of the obscure laws, revenge is enacted (as opposed to justice) and a prison gains a new resident. Without regard for the fact that a prison is little more than a higher education in criminal conduct. Fixing problems is not on anyone's radar, filling prisons is, because it makes you look tough on [whatever] and let's face it, the person was a criminal, so who cares? There is no incentive to fix the problem, because if crime went away completely you would have to come up with a new topic to appear tough on. Crime is easy, because everyone agrees that it's bad, and that the solution is to take the criminals off the streets, not examine what lead to them becoming a criminal to begin with (and that is even ignoring all the people who didn't know they were committing a crime to begin with).

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FreshnewsMostClicked/~3/C1rU5XTC4ig/florida-law-may-accidentally-ban-computers-and-smartphones

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