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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4920741" data-attributes="member: 1879">This is where I start having a problem. On several levels. First even in lawful societies people are well aware that passing a law is not the solution to every problem, because anyone but an idiot is aware that laws cannot possibly cover every eventuality. Thats why we teach custom and ethics, to provide guidelines for situations the law cannot cover. More importantly non-modern systems do not move as quickly or rashly and are much less likely to pass a law on a wave of popular panic the way we are accustomed to seeing it.Second. This is a theocracy. If before any law can be passed a cleric casts 'weal or woe' to see if it's a good idea it will probably cut down significantly on the number of stupid ideas.Third. We don't know quite enough about the function of the society, specifically how laws are proposed, passed and enforced to be certain how this would play out. I rather doubt however that anyone who feels like it can propose a law and see it passed on the basis of popularity as can occur in some modern states.Fourth. A lawful society doesn't need a law to cover every possibility. Because the people respond well to authority local control and regulation are very effective at controling problems without the long term restriction of law.This is fun stuff to toss about btw. And it is worth noting that some societies value stability and continuity much more than freedom or even justice. Under the Tokugawa shogunate frex if a law was found to be bad or unjust, but had been in place more than 40 years, it was left alone as the disruption to stability was seen as worse than the injustice. However as we are discussing a Theocracy headed by a God with Justice in his portfolio that probably does not apply to our hypothetical kingdom.Touching on 3. It's worth noting that all control doesn't need to be vested in a single central authority, and historically it rarely was. Maybe the law doesn't touch on arcane experimentation at all, that is considered to be mages guild buisiness. Likewise no law governs the use of dyes in fabrics, that's for the dyers guild to worry about. Why would the king or parliment or high priest know or care about such matters?</blockquote>

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