" To make laws that man cannot - and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt."Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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critical faculty
crit-i-cal fac-ul-ty
A good working definition would be: The ability to mentally evaluate information, statements, or propositions, to determine if they are accurate, true, or likely.
dojo
do-jo
A school for training in Japanese arts of self-defense, such as judo and karate.
On The Critical Faculty:“It is our only guarantee against delusion, deception, superstition, and misapprehension of ourselves and our earthly circumstances.” William Graham Sumner
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2 comments:
It does, certainly.
But for that we must lay at least a part of the blame at the feet of the party system- all three main parties are in agreement on so much, proper democratic debate doesn't happen and bad laws are either or passed or maintained.
Not just that I think, though it does play a part.
There is also the matter of ill thought and hasty ‘reflex’ legislation made, often one suspects just to be seen to be doing something.
Then there are the ghastly unnecessary complexities of multiple detailed specific offences covering what used to be managed by a single act plus case law.
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