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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market
Y'know, sometimes law in the Western world is completely insane.
From those insane lawsuits
Slanted divorce and child support
The amount of money it takes for a high-profile case
The fact that people are willing to pay to keep a completely incurable bat**** insane lunatic alive
Our horribly inefficient system anyways
Jury duty
And the sheer amount of idiots that courts must go through daily.
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I agree almost completely. But then, that's what we get for allowing it to become a monopoly.
We messed up by giving too much legislative power to the state. Now the legal code is so complex that only a professional has a hope of understanding even a small part of it, and no one on the entire planet knows the entire U.S. legal code. It occupies a whole wing of the Library of Congress, and even that doesn't even include all local legislation.
But that's what always happens when you give up your freedom to choose. The Justice system is a business like any other. The only difference is that the currency is sometimes political. We created a niche market by giving too much legislative power to the Federal government, which was quickly filled by legal entrepeneurs. And they did what they do best; make laws.
They made (and built on) so many laws and judicial procedures, that now individuals can't compete. In the same way that a corner market can't compete with Wal-Mart, individuals can't compete in the Justice market. The difference is that you can choose not to shop at Wal-Mart. Your dollar is your vote. But in the political sector, you most likely won't have a vote unless you're a legal professional. Is it any wonder that so many political offices are filled by lawyers?
At least if the states had the majority of the legislative power, we'd get a limited choice as to which legal system we liked best, if that mattered to us. But we gave up that choice in the hopes that someone else would take care of us.
Now we have a monopoly state, and we don't have to look very hard to see what path it is taking us on.