Fun facts: the UK has crazy laws protecting trees and hedgerows. There’s a national tree registry for old boys.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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          6 months ago

          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.

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            6 months ago

            I mean they aren’t technically wrong some of the time, we shouldn’t have to pay to exist it’s fucking crazy.

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            6 months ago

            I honestly agree with them about how dumb a lot of our legal system is. Their response is to try and make it dumber, though

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      6 months ago

      Technically, how all law really works at its core.

      Well, that and the threat of overwhelming unilateral violence