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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 6735749" data-attributes="member: 16814">The US legal system is very LN.  It has done horrible things in the name of following the rules -- released horrible and guilty people due to technicalities of evidence, applied the law in ways that punish the downtrodden to enrich the upper classes, and often ignores actual justice to follow the law.  The US legal system is fantastic at putting people in jail, very good at moving money from one entity to another, bad at justice, and horrible at finding truth.  It, however, functions pretty well overall.  So even though the laws are perhaps written to achieve a good end, the actual functioning of the system is very neutral -- it rarely, if ever, considers the good of its actions over following the law.So, yeah, LN societies are those that uphold the law no matter the outcome.  They can have members that push for better or worse laws, and even pass them, but if the ultimate decision is based solely on the law and not the good or evil of the outcome, that's a LN society.  You live in one.Educated isn't relative to the upper end of Western society, it's relative to the world.  You've finished 6th grade, you are educated.</blockquote>