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Ask HN: Imagine a world where your conscience is the core of the legal system

1 pointsby salimaneover 11 years ago
Basically in that world,<p>- If your conscience think what you are doing is right then you are allowed to do it. - If you knowingly know something is bad and you still do it, then your conscience will of course know you&#x27;re doing a bad thing, then somehow automatically you will get punished.<p>In that world, your own conscience is your own judge.<p>Think about what this would do to the politicians, the legal system, the patent system, thieves, rapers...<p>I think that would solve most of the world problems ?<p>What do you guys think ? What are the flaws of that world ?<p>Thanks for the feedback :)

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mooism2over 11 years ago
Anyone who can rationalise their behaviour as not really being theft, or not really being rape, or not really being whatever, they will go free.<p>And anyone who wishes they could change the last words they said to a friend or relative before they unexpectedly died, they will be jailed.