Are laws expected to be completely self and cross consistent?
I wanted programmatic law in the past and then after thinking and talking a bit, concluded that self and cross consistency in the law is not considered necessary.
I wanted programmatic law in the past and then after thinking and talking a bit, concluded that self and cross consistency in the law is not considered necessary.
How do you know if you are breaking the law or not if it's inconsistent? And like the sibling points out, any inconsistency can be abused to declare you guilty or innocent on any behavior depending on the partisanship and interests of the judge.
After a while and talking to smart people I became convinced that was impossible; instead, we have a judicial system filled with experts who make heuristic decisions, and (ideally) it's biased towards not finding people guilty of breaking complex laws they couldn't have figured out. Life requires flexible thinking.