More on the Law
Published by Ravikiran Rao December 31st, 2003 in LawI am glad you people liked my fable. But no - laws are not complicated because lawyers write them or interpret them. They aren’t complicated because lawyers are addicted to verbiage. They are complicated because our laws tend to micromanage the real world, something they shouldn’t do. The real world being complex, the laws have to perforce mirror this complicated reality.
When I get the time, I’ll explain with an example.
Is it possible that micromanagment of reality is the objective of social norms and rules? Laws being formalised postulations of these, would tend to exhibit the charachteristics of the norms of society, that both micromanage and frame reality in a different way, from that which existed before the law/norm/rule emerged.