Friday, October 07, 2005

Which Laws Are Beneficial?


I would like to make a bet. I bet that if the legal system were audited they would not find a single law that actually improves our lives. When I say "audit" I mean reporting all of the effects, costs and other ramifications to the legal system.


So often I hear of how a law is holding up progress, punishing the innocent, protecting the criminal, increasing costs unfairly, requiring a certain way to do things that is now outdated and favors corruption or pollution, etc., etc. Is there a problem with the legal system? I believe existing law is a front for retribution, revenge, pass-the-buck, hate attacks, scavengers, parasites, cons, and is a major part of the control system for controlling the slaves in our Invisible Slavery System. I believe law is used to satisfy emotional discontent more so than to actually solve the problems of society. And I believe that when this happens the public mind is trained to perceive "justice".

In the end does the legal system repay the victim for the harm done? Once in awhile. Most of the time the legal system gets the shot in the arm instead, and that funds the promotion they need to keep the public convinced of the good they are doing. I'm not against having police - we definitely need them - so long as they are there only to "serve and protect". I'm talking about the structure of law, how we continually need laws that fix the loopholes in other laws, and laws that fix the loopholes in those laws, and so on. This creates a system that endlessly grows more complex, gets more expensive to support, more difficult to understand, more parasitic to the economy, makes life tough for the hard working and the innocent, and provides more wiggling room for the criminal. The court system tries to iron out who did what when they really can't prove who did what. Forensics helps the lawyer lie to the jury by making it look as though the case has been proven. There have been more "frames" and innocent people on death roe than you can imagine. Dozens have been proven innocent later - and those are only the proven ones, a very small percentage.

Existing law helps to protect us from some amateurs - not the pros. I believe the huge cost of law, to protect us from a few amateurs, would go way down through the use of the Libertarian model for self-reliance combined with information technologies that provide the right information at the right time, and include information on all available tools for self-protection.

The idea needs to be switched around from the law concept. Instead of thinking of how to control people, think of how to provide tools for people to protect themselves. Police can then go into business for themselves, to help people who want their help and who are willing to pay for it. Ultimately the people decide for themselves, and information technologies sort out what works and what doesn't. What is honest and what is bogus. What is dangerous and what is safe.

In my proposed futuristic society, which I call the "Integration Society", law would be reduced to a simple prime directive which everyone can easily understand. Do anything you want so long as you don't hurt someone else or their property. I call it the "Integration Society" because it depends on advanced information systems to eliminate the oppression through lack of information problem. Then the problems of society will be solved collectively through the integrated efforts of everyone on the planet, rather than a control hierarchy that is prone to corruption, war, and oppressive policies.