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Laws are typically rules created by humanoids in response to a perceived wrongdoing.  Sometimes they are proactive, but I think those days are mostly over in this country.  No matter where the law applies, I think you will find that it would be totally unnecessary if people were just a little bit nicer. Yesterday the Groundhog and I discussed the late Pope Carlin’s unimaginably wise words that the 10 commandments could be broken down to just a couple of rules.

Our memories did not serve us correctly on the nature of his revisions but that isn’t the point of this blog post anyway.  The point is that all legal (and customary) rules are constructs of man and thus primarily arbitrary.  To demonstrate this one only has to imagine a world without humans and, to some lesser degree, the other forms of higher life found on this planet.

If everyone were to die tomorrow (including all non-human people), then who would care about things like theft or murder?  Without anyone left to own things nobody would be left to steal from and nobody would be left to kill.  Other silly rules such as spitting on the sidewalk, moving at excessive speeds on a paved surface while operating a locomotive apparatus, and making digital copies of a musician’s work would be issues the remaining forms of life would care very little about.

Rules, laws, customs, and just about every idea that humans hold themselves rigidly to at the moment are all influenced by our perception of the way things are.  I think the problem is that humans, even the smarter minority, don’t perceive things all too well.  Whether or not this is an artifact of having not enough (or too many) eyes and ears is a subject for another debate but the bottom line is that the human mind and body was designed to live in one type of world governed by the laws of nature and instead now lives in a world ruled by the influence of man. I’m not suggesting we go around poking people’s eyes out because I just can’t see how that would help people perceive things any better.  You probably didn’t think that was my point anyway, and it wasn’t.  My point also isn’t that the world would be a happier place if we went around gluing extra eyes to unsuspecting people, because that is a subject for another day and it wouldn’t help them see things any better anyway.

The thing to keep in mind is that we live our lives day to day following rules that are (mostly) the result of something stupid that someone else did.  It was probably something you would not want to do in most cases.  Sometimes, though, it is simply the side effect of some anal retentive upright hairless monkey who didn’t know how to relax and have a good time.  Their feelings got hurt because one thing or another didn’t jive right with their own over-inflated sense of self worth* and they vehemently sought some means to prevent it from happening again.  As a result, you are now their innocent victim.  I could suggest tracking them down and killing them but fixing them up with plastic googly eyes and super-glue might more fun.  Plus, that isn’t yet illegal.

We only have the laws that we do because we choose to acknowledge them.  Some things which are crimes are by no means ethically or morally wrong.  I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to come up with their own examples since each of us operates on a partially incompatible set of software libraries and everyone is in dire need of a system update.

The question I’m actually presenting to the reader is this: At what point will humanity say enough is enough?  How long will it take before a large enough group of hairless apes get sick and tired of being told what they can and cannot do and violently lash out at the mindless majority?  Is it happening as we speak?  Is that what’s wrong with people?  Has common sense been unintentionally outlawed as a result of the intentional criminalization of the very acts which separate the average chimp from the gorilla that believes that he or she is somehow entitled to more or better?

When shit gets really bad (and it’s already getting there) nobody is going to give a pair of disembodied lobster claws what bloodline your family comes from or how large your bank account was.  Nobody is going to care how much the clothes you wear cost you at your favorite designer boutique and fewer yet will care where you went to school or what kind of grades you made.  What’s going to matter to them, when that day comes, is whether or not they should kill or steal from you and whether or not they’re going to rape or eat your corpse afterward.

None of us were really given much of a choice by which laws we are forced to live by.  It doesn’t quite seem fair, then, that most people won’t have much of a choice whether they live or die once those laws no longer apply.  In the end, when the grid has fallen and when wealth is exposed for the fraud that it is, everyone will realize that there really are no laws. FNORD

So, uhm, yeah. Well, the laws of nature and physics will probably always apply.

(*Nobody is really worth anything. Nobody is special. Not them. Not you. Get over it. You are not a unique and beautiful snowflake.)