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- From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Subject: Re: Why the big copyright statements?
- In-Reply-To: witr@rwwa.COM's message of Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:18:20 GMT
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- You are looking for logic in law.
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- There is little logic in law, particularly in the large. It is not
- algorithm driven.
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- It is a bunch of special cases with perhaps some over-riding ideas
- mostly negated by the special cases. Have you ever noticed that even a
- minimal law library fills rooms? If we could reduce it to logic it
- would fill perhaps one thick book or two.
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- At best you can scour the logic of each special case like lawyers and
- judges do. Often the logic is subtle or even non-existant, there is
- more to life than logic (e.g. values, experience, people's behavior or
- needs which often are just not logical, etc.)
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- People who live by logic seem to spend half their lives (literally)
- figuring this out. I just gave it to you cheap. Save yourself the
- time and agony.
-
- --
- -Barry Shein
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