This isn't a big topic, I stated a fact, I'm sorry you're unable to cope with that.
> Not every matter of conversation - especially one so enormous as "what is the nature of law?" can be answered in an HN thread.
Fortunate then that we are not discussing the nature of law.
> It isn't and doesn't.
Yes it is and yes it does.
> What about a situation in which two different entities both claim to be the legitimate government? Or a society in which large numbers of people regard a government as illegitimate? Or who regard particular laws as beyond a purview which they recognize for government?
None of those questions are relevant to the point I made and serve only as an attempt to move the goal post because you're unwilling or unable to restrict yourself to the point I'm making; I reject this attempt.
There is no discussion to be had here, I stated facts, not opinions to be debated; it is a fact that laws need not be logical to be passed, you're being a child to deny that; we're done. Whatever your higher point about law is, I don't care.