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Hello fellow TL members, I am writing this blog to discuss a matter that I think is important and everyone with the interest should be aware of. Throughout the last few centuries (since about the 18th century) of human history, events that produced radical changes to the average type of government in the world have occurred. For example, in the 18th century, the average type of government in Europe was the monarchy, and in the 19th century, this began to change as revolutions occurred throughout the world and people demanded for change since the current type of government at the time didn't work in keeping a system that seemed fair to the average population. With this input, I can now discuss the status of the world at our current time (relating to governments). At our current time, the average type of government is the democracy, which seems fair to the great majority of the world population. The laws of democracies are mainly based around a constitution, which provide a set of laws that should be followed by every member of the government. Now, since the beginning of the 21th century, many things have changed in our society. Some changes are a dramatic increase in population and the increased awareness of dangers that threaten human existence (such as astronomical phenomena, genetic diseases, and human-made weapons). There are a lot of other significant changes, but I am not going to state them in here. Change in our society seems to be inevitable; it happens naturally. Governments have sets of laws that people must follow in order for society to remain in order and for humans to be able to advance their knowledge and maintain themselves. Knowing that society constantly changes and that governments have defined sets of laws, I think that the next step in human advancement of government is the development of sets of laws that are able to adapt to the dynamics of society. I also wanted to ask for your perspective on this topic. What are your perspectives on this topic? Also, this discussion relates to the discussion on whether people in the U.S. should have the right to carry gun since this law of the U.S. Constitution was issued during the American Revolution for people of the U.S. at the time to be able to protect themselves against British soldiers, and this law is outdated and does not effectively apply to today's American society which relies on police protection for internal safety.
  
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I understand you're point, but I feel as if "adaptable laws" are fair game for politicians to exploit and abuse to a greater extent than even today.
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shine on you crazy diamond <3 <3 <3
edit: sorry that's supposed to be a compliment i wasnt sure if that was clear
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There are other ideas I have developed after posting this, but I am not going to post every idea that I develop. I might make a second thread following this discussion with other ideas. Please feel free to post your perspectives or contradict me, just don't troll please. Captainobvious, you are definitely right, although I was also trying to make the point that change is inevitable in our society, so it will change constantly and at different rates, maybe naturally or maybe in effect of the work of a few people. Maybe, future laws will follow simple ideas that will be used as bases that will be used to make the laws of the time. Kind of like an algebraic function, and the laws of the time would be the input to follow the function.
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Feel free to post your opinions, just don't troll please.
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Hey mods, how can I put this on the General Forum thread?
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well law is more complicated than just if you do x and you get y.
it's mostly based upon the higher court's judgement on a similar case to set an example.
I feel like it is quite dynamic enough, eventually society changes and when they do and strong enough. old law will be reviewed and turned.
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You might be right, but people tend to hold sentiments towards laws from the past since they probably think that if they break them order will be broken as well, which is true. However, some laws from the past become useless in the future and don't work consistently with the actual way society works. I guess that the law system might be dynamic enough, I would have to think some more.
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