It wasn’t really meant to be, my opinion is that following the law for its own sake is a form of slave morality and a betrayal of one’s own moral principles, but I guess the meme is vague enough to be interpreted any which way.
following the law for it’s own sake is a form of slave morality
People don’t follow the law “for it’s own sake”. They have material reasons for supporting or transgressing, which they rationalize after the fact.
Sometimes it’s practical (driving the speed limit or not based on flow of traffic) and sometimes it’s formative (being hyper sensitive to street crime because you’ve got a memory of being robbed / reflectively shoplifting because you grew up food insecure). Maybe you’re the victim of abuse or just OCD.
But there are broad social, historical, and economic reasons to support/oppose a given legal code.
Where did you get the idea that this was supposed to be ML or exclusive to any specific leftist ideology for that matter? /gen
I feel like i’m missing context for this comment
It wasn’t really meant to be, my opinion is that following the law for its own sake is a form of slave morality and a betrayal of one’s own moral principles, but I guess the meme is vague enough to be interpreted any which way.
People don’t follow the law “for it’s own sake”. They have material reasons for supporting or transgressing, which they rationalize after the fact.
Sometimes it’s practical (driving the speed limit or not based on flow of traffic) and sometimes it’s formative (being hyper sensitive to street crime because you’ve got a memory of being robbed / reflectively shoplifting because you grew up food insecure). Maybe you’re the victim of abuse or just OCD.
But there are broad social, historical, and economic reasons to support/oppose a given legal code.