There has to be some basis for people claiming that the laws of the land do not apply to them, but for the life of me, I can’t begin to understand it.
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The basis is the tendency for people think there’s “one weird trick” to getting around their problems. In this case, they hear from someone that some obscure legal rule or tradition actually makes our entire social order invalid and they don’t have to follow it. It sounds legit enough to them, so they act like the laws don’t apply
Problem is, the social order isn’t something that exists with supernatural rules. It’s whatever is enacted and enforced in reality right now. If some old rule or tradition is no longer used, then it’s no longer valid. Besides that they’re usually misunderstanding the implications of the outdated things their logic relies on anyway.
So in short how does it happen? Twisted facts + wishful thinking
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