Gödel’s Loophole is a supposed “inner contradiction” in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship. It has been called “one of the great unsolved problems of constitutional law” by F. E. Guerra-Pujol.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    2 days ago

    I mean it makes sense the way you put it. We create laws because there is a line in the sand we semi agree on. You don’t have the right to murder people. But we debate on the rights to have the tools to murder people. The line is supposed to get wavy and get back and forth. We say we want absolute freedom here, but absolute freedom is anarchy. In really we have to pick and choose freedoms.