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To: Ilaine who wrote (90456)	4/5/2003 10:02:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

<By the way, in case you never noticed, law is remarkably like physics except that we can change it when we want to. > CB, I have indeed noticed. The Supreme Court declares words mean what they say they mean and they might or might not change the meaning from time to time, or, in the absence of words, invent some to fill the void where there should be a law, in their opinion, which is everywhere where there isn't a law and they want one, or a dollar has not been harnessed. Nature abhors a vacuum and likewise, lawyers love to fill the cosmos with laws. They can't handle physics or maths laws, but by hokey they sure can cook up a storm of legal causal relationships and create a whole reality where none existed. It's almost like being God. In the beginning, there was a quiet firmament filled with nothing but a black hole. Then, kablamm, a guild of lawyers brought into being a whole infinitely expanding universe of stuff. Will the number of laws cause sufficient gravitational force and quantum entanglement that the whole lot will collapse back into a black hole? I wait with bated breath. [Baited breath in American - I guess they love eating fish bait or something]. Mqurice

To: Ilaine who wrote (90456)	4/5/2003 11:20:24 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

> Under old English common law... If that is the kind of thing you like, you will enjoy studying Shia Fiqh (it is often referred to as theology but it is really a legal system). Among the issues debated was if a stolen 2x4 is used in a ship, can the rightful owner get to pull it out even though it sinks the ship at the harbor? If yes, then can he do so if the ship is at sea? Furthermore how is this different that removing a stolen stitching thread from a surgical patient. Believe it or not these are the kinds of religious edicts that have been passed and become the foundation for fatwas and rulings for more than a thousand years...I have a few books I could lend you but I don't think you'll be able to read them. They came quite handy when I was in the middle east. Sure I was a godless infidel, but after discussing a few fiqhi points with the local cleric, I became a respected godless infidel. And that helped me get around :-) ST