There is a theoretical proposition that I find increasingly true. Let me state it. You won't find anything about it in law textbooks.
Law (as a system) is a product and therefore an instrument of actual social conception. The main (unwritten) function of law (actual legal practice), is to protect the social conception, as it actually is, from non-conceptual changes. If the system of law fulfils this function, then law works. If the real social conception is based on a large-scale criminal foundation, systemic violations of written law, and crypto-fascism as the tools necessary to exercise power over people, then HER legal system protects all of this primarily in consequence, not eliminates it. And if it does, then the law is working properly and not not not working (!).
Law "can only afford" to remove and address those elements in society that are superfluous and expendable to its realistic conception as it currently exists. What the written law declares is not at all relevant. It is such a misleading advertisement for the people. Only the societal (conceptual) consequences of its enforcement are relevant. Hopefully it will somehow work in someone else's mind too, in relation to ALL those "legal solutions to the current situation".
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