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law texts feel like a layering problem, like just decoration around decoration to avoid breaking existing 'code' without ever simplifying it
Okay so let’s try simplifying it. We’ll change the existing murder legislation to “Killing someone is a crime”. It’ll save us thousands of pages. But does that mean a soldier shooting an enemy is a crime? What about shooting someone who is raping you? What if you shoot someone by mistake, thinking they’re going to kill you? What if you hit them with a car? What if you fail to provide safety equipment which eventually…
Those exceptions were accumulated over time rather than compiled into a coherent schema. I don't expect a finished product to be a single page, but neither does it require the literally millions that it currently takes up.