[Essay] Auron MacIntyre: You Gotta Serve Somebody
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True. I forget the details but I'm reminded of this guy who decades ago parachuted down from the ceiling of St. Peter's Basilica.
He was a removed but he couldn't be charged with a crime because what he did wasn't against the law of that area. It wasn't against the law because it hadn't even been contemplated. Now, because of that man, the Vatican has a law that covers parachuting.
When no one does something because everyone just knows not to do it of course you don't need a law codifying it. Call it shared culture, values, what have you. We don't have that anymore, and so everything must be codified.
A bandage over a gaping wound.
These barbaric genital-removal surgeries were never illegal because they didn't NEED to be made illegal.
We just knew.