@Stahesh - The amount of bullshit, arising from some obscure lawsuit, is staggering.

I've been working to formulate a post-collapse order for some years now. 🤔 Our criminal justice system (as written) is about as good as can be accomplished without omniscience or modern forensics.

But the civil lawsuits ..? Those gotta go, I think. Or else some major reform is required (like "no lawyers allowed" sort of major).

@YoMomz @Stahesh Civil law can work insofar as it is an extension of contract law. Did they violate the contract? Yes or no. Part of the problem though is activist judges: They make a ruling not based on the text of the contract but on what "justice" they want to see done or because the plaintiff/defendant is attractive not based on what the contract said.
The easiest way to improve civil law would be to make a "loser-pays" scheme the default. It would dissuade people from suing with no risks.

@DoubleD @Stahesh - Perhaps... 🤔 Though I imagine everything will be scaled down, and made much more local in a post-collapse scenario.

I tend to think of these things at the village-level. I suspect that's how our civil-law procedures originated, but that as procedures were scaled up... that as a society, we managed to zig when we should have zagged. 🍻

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@YoMomz @Stahesh Even at a village level, civil law based on a contract, even if that contract is three sentences on a napkin with thumbprints in poke-berry ink or functionally a receipt for services to be rendered, contract enforcement is the second function of minimalist government after defense from outside threats because ultimately, you need someone to arbitrate and judge in a situation where the parties cannot come to a decision without resorting to violence between themselves.

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