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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 August 2012 12:43:38AM 1 point [-]

An idea from a book called The Death of Common Sense-- language has very narrow bandwidth compared to the world, which means that laws can never cover all the situations that the laws are intended to cover.

Comment author: Costanza 19 August 2012 12:53:16AM 1 point [-]

language has very narrow bandwidth compared to the world, which means that laws can never cover all the situations that the laws are intended to cover.

This is the story of human law.

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