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The great debate: a less than stellar contribution

Day 906, 18:22 • Published in Canada Canada

• by olivermellors

Just a short socratic piece.
Proposed by some:

The criminal law must all be based on written laws.

Congress makes the written laws.

Congress gets its authority to make the written laws from the written constitution.

(good so far)

The written Constitution doesn’t have any mention of Congress’ power to write criminal laws.

Hmmmm….philosophic difficulty?

Comments

Rigour6 Day 906, 18:54

Lol, the problem with this "debate" is that some people are being deliberately obtuse rather than actually reasoning about what is right and wrong.

In a discussion between two men, one of whom is trying to make things clear and the other one of whom is trying to make them appear confused and muddled, the advantage is strongly with the latter.

Captain Salty Kushskins Day 906, 21:32

Rigour6 just summed up human history in a sentence.

TemujinBC Day 906, 23:57

Agreed, Rigour. Agreed so hard.

Advantage: TemujinBC

Seven weeks, two days.

only atoms Day 907, 01:16

Two wrongs make the unburdened right.

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