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nega OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by _caspar_ in Law and Civilization by nega

I am not entirely describing a future mode of justice, merely positing that, given a reflectively free judiciary, conscious of the dishonesty of holding given published language of law to be determinative of human conduct, such a reflectively free judiciary might, in future, practice a justice predicated upon the ontological structure of human beings, instead of a justice predicated upon a constant condemnation and criminalization of what we are as human beings. No way am I foreshadowing an absolute mode of justice, merely one conducted in honest keeping with our human ontological structure...I am freeing- justice-up, to be able to proceed unto a future in authentic keeping with the natural ontological nobility of our human being, which nobility cannot but be smothered and stunted by current jurisprudence, which is mere venal condemnation of human freedom, acting constantly against human ontological freedom, merely for the sake of radically profitable legal practices... Human freedom is not really being given a chance in America...we are all reduced to being the peons of an ontologically unintelligible, criminal, language of law...

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Ennui wrote

You've managed a critique of law without capturing any of the features of the legal system that makes it awful, especially the political environment in which a good-willed judiciary can imprison/kill countless innocents and think they've done right.

Making justice more rational is on par with sad reformism.

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