When someone pulls of some radd stunts in the court of law.
It's like mental gymnastics except that logic gets thrown out the window in favor of law and justice.
Commonly paired with the analogy of comparing a court room to a three ring circus.
It's like mental gymnastics except that logic gets thrown out the window in favor of law and justice.
Commonly paired with the analogy of comparing a court room to a three ring circus.
Freelancer: I am concerned about the implications of my work on this project impacting the eligibility of the company to transfer the copyright of this software to the Free Software Foundation for solidification of the GPL license by virtue of my contributions making me a contributor to this project and a stakeholder in the copyright.
Boss: You are being employed by the company and acting on behalf of the company as you develop the software, so your contributions are actually the company contributing to itself, depriving you of any stakeholding. As for the separate git repo you are developing as a subproject, an independently functional subproject does not automatically become its own entity. This git repo separates the code solely to make the project easier to manage and does not constitute an intellectually independent work; instead, this subject and the larger project are together one piece of software. Moreover, the company has not authorized you to accept contributions from yourself, which prevents any possible contamination of the copyright.
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Boss: You are being employed by the company and acting on behalf of the company as you develop the software, so your contributions are actually the company contributing to itself, depriving you of any stakeholding. As for the separate git repo you are developing as a subproject, an independently functional subproject does not automatically become its own entity. This git repo separates the code solely to make the project easier to manage and does not constitute an intellectually independent work; instead, this subject and the larger project are together one piece of software. Moreover, the company has not authorized you to accept contributions from yourself, which prevents any possible contamination of the copyright.
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Get the legalized slavery mug.A theory of emergent rights which states that as human beings; we are all one person in different bodies.
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Legal frequentism argues that our bodies--not minds--are responsible for our sundry behaviors. This indicates that we are legally but not morally liable for our actions since we did not choose our individual bodies.
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Devoid of the virtues usually associated with that thing
Stepped-on, devalued, counterfeited, a swindle
Devoid of the virtues usually associated with that thing
Stepped-on, devalued, counterfeited, a swindle
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Get the Legal mug.The problem of self-enforcement: The legal system's authority ultimately rests on the threat of state violence (police, prisons). But what legitimizes that violence? The law itself. This is a circular justification: the law is right because the law says it's right, and it will punish you if you disagree. The hard problem is that the system cannot provide a non-coercive, non-circular foundation for its own power. It assumes its legitimacy, and that assumption is backed by force. Any attempt to question the system's foundations from within is met with procedures defined by the very system being questioned.
Example: You are on trial. You argue the law is unjust. The judge says, "That's not a legal argument." You argue the court has no jurisdiction. The judge cites laws granting jurisdiction. You refuse to recognize the court. You are held in contempt—a charge defined by the court's own rules. The hard problem: The legal system is a closed loop. Its validity is a social agreement reinforced by its own operational success and monopoly on legitimate violence. To stand outside it and demand justification is to invite its force, not its reason. It is the ultimate "because I said so" backed by handcuffs. Hard Problem of the Legal System.
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Example: A sexual assault survivor undergoes a brutal cross-examination where their character and memory are shredded, only to see the case dismissed on a technicality. The legal trauma they endure—the public humiliation, the betrayal by a system they trusted for justice—can be more psychologically damaging than the initial assault. They are left with a profound conviction that the world is not just, that institutions are hostile, and that seeking help leads to further violation.
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