fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · edit-25 months agoImagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive and change lol lol lolmander.xyzimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up17arrow-down1imageImagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive and change lol lol lolmander.xyzfossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · edit-25 months agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
Fun facts: the UK has crazy laws protecting trees and hedgerows. There’s a national tree registry for old boys.
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months ago and everyone just went with it. Technically, how all law really works at its core.
minus-squarewizzor@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoSomeone thought me the concept of a legal fiction and I still think about it. Land ownership, companies, nation states, citizenship: all exist because we agree that it does.
minus-squareThe Snark Urge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThis crooked little vein of logic is what gave us sovereign citizens though, so be careful. Time may be an illusion and all, but schedules still exist.
minus-squareAlien Nathan Edward@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months ago Technically, how all law really works at its core. Well, that and the threat of overwhelming unilateral violence
Technically, how all law really works at its core.
Someone thought me the concept of a legal fiction and I still think about it.
Land ownership, companies, nation states, citizenship: all exist because we agree that it does.
And money.
This crooked little vein of logic is what gave us sovereign citizens though, so be careful. Time may be an illusion and all, but schedules still exist.
Well, that and the threat of overwhelming unilateral violence