Is part of the Law, making up your own rules? How else could the Law be, first off?

[Gottservant]

Hi there,

So there is an interesting problem here, right? At what point is the Law just made up? Could the Law exist, if no one "made it up"? And is it wrong, if no one objects? And will anyone object, if you wait long enough?

Lots of questions.

Thanks.

 

[Received]

You've heard of natural law, right? Well, there you go. You might also say that laws are expressions of basic intuitions or schemata we have hardwired in us. An example of the latter would be justice or fairness. Laws would simply "concretize" this intuition or schema, and there are plenty of situations with very different contexts in which these intuitions can be made into laws.

Whether or not God exists, by the way.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Ants use those chemical signals, bees do the waggle dance. No chems no ants, no dance no bees. No bees, no honey etc etc etc.

 

[variant]

Hi there,

So there is an interesting problem here, right? At what point is the Law just made up? Could the Law exist, if no one "made it up"? And is it wrong, if no one objects? And will anyone object, if you wait long enough?

Lots of questions.

Thanks.

In a word yes, the "law" is based upon the rules people would make up while being people and living in society.

What rules are necessary? How would I react in that situation? Is it fair to treat these situations differently?

These are the sorts of questions that have to be answered when creating laws.