Something that struck me as apropos
By Giania • Apr 20th, 2007 at 8:34 pm • Category: Fnord| Hot: |  |  | | | |
“We need more laws with stiffer penalties to rid our community of drugs,”
Says an innocent pawn of Eris. To be sure, these laws make smuggling and selling and buying drugs more risky. That, in turn, drives up their prices – thus making them more profitable. So more money and work goes into expanding the market for the contraband – in keeping with the Law of Eristic Escalation.
Or, as the Taoist sage Chuang Tzu simply said:
“The more laws there are, the more crime there is.”
(Identification and elucidation of anerisms is a favorite pastime of politically conscious Discordians – who note that the whole text of my “Epistle to the Paranoids” on page 00069 is a psychological anerism. Goddess punished me for it, about five years later, by turning me into a paranoid myself. A conspiracy helped Her.
As of this writing, I am still paranoid – according to my friends.) (Or are they my enemies?)Proliferation of crime in the wake of multiplication of laws is more than a matter of expanded definition. Governments are impositions of order designed to discourage theft and killing. But they wind up taking more in taxes than all the freelance crooks around could steal. Their wars involve more killing than all the meanest toughs and hoodlums can hope to rival.
– Source: Principa Discordia
Formulate your own opinions.
