• Corridor8031@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    Like the fact that someone can get shot for offering to get their neighbour high, while companies can litteraly operate like crime syndicates with minimal repercussion

    might be a cause for people thinking the law is just opression instead of a guideline that can be actually used

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    2 days ago

    And remember, your master is the one you’re not allowed to make fun of. Isn’t that right ____?

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This feels more like an Anarchist meme than a Marxist-Leninist meme.

    The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is usually cool with laws.

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      Where did you get the idea that this was supposed to be ML or exclusive to any specific leftist ideology for that matter? /gen

      I feel like i’m missing context for this comment

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        21 hours ago

        It wasn’t really meant to be, my opinion is that following the law for its own sake is a form of slave morality and a betrayal of one’s own moral principles, but I guess the meme is vague enough to be interpreted any which way.

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          22 hours ago

          following the law for it’s own sake is a form of slave morality

          People don’t follow the law “for it’s own sake”. They have material reasons for supporting or transgressing, which they rationalize after the fact.

          Sometimes it’s practical (driving the speed limit or not based on flow of traffic) and sometimes it’s formative (being hyper sensitive to street crime because you’ve got a memory of being robbed / reflectively shoplifting because you grew up food insecure). Maybe you’re the victim of abuse or just OCD.

          But there are broad social, historical, and economic reasons to support/oppose a given legal code.