[SUBMITTED] Quia Scriptum Est

[Candlewhisper Archive]

SUBMITTED 21/3/18

TITLE:

Quia Scriptum Est


VALIDITY:

Must have courts, internet and capitalism. Also cars, unless I can change the first effect line.

DESCRIPTION:

Prominent lawyer @@randomname@@ recently quit his prestigious criminal defence job, citing that @@HE@@ can make more money by concentrating on @@HIS@@ other job: writing essays and dissertations for law students. The senior partner at @@HIS@@ firm - who happens to be your cousin - is making a fuss over this.


OPTION ONE

"Now see here, dearest cuz, this is entirely intolerable, insupportable and insufferable," mutters cousin @@randomfirstname@@, exercising @@HIS@@ penchant for using long words when short ones would do. "Essay writing services are manifestly unethical, facilitating contra bonos mores educational fraud in a multitude of professions and academic fields, thus allowing de facto untested individuals to carry out actions ex cathedra. Clearly, by principle of animus nocendi, anyone offering services and products that would clearly lead to criminality should be prosecuted as responsible for these outcomes. That's clear, isn't it?"

Outcome: selling a car makes the seller culpable for the new owner's speeding fines



OPTION TWO

"Normally I charge for this sort of thing, but I'll make this argument pro bono," begins @@randomname(1)@@, cracking @@HIS@@ knuckles and opening a prepared dossier of legal arguments. "Firstly, nulla poena sine lege. Secondly, it's clearly stated on my website that the essays and dissertations provided are unique crafted example texts, and that the condition of sale is that they must not be passed as the purchaser's work. I can hardly be blamed if these products are misused, can I? Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali. The students are sui juris. A company cannot be blamed for the actions of its customer." The dossier falls to your desk with the force of a mic drop.

Outcome: the law says its okay to sell a bomb to a terrorist so long as they promise not to detonate it


OPTION THREE

"Sooey joorey what now?" asks your brother suspiciously. "I hate lawyers and all their fancy Latin speak. What's wrong with speaking plainly in own language? I reckon we can deal with this whole mess by getting rid of courts and lawyers. It's only what they deserve. Quid pro quo, right?"

Outcome: the government says only criminals harp on about "innocent until proven guilty"

[The Marsupial Illuminati]

VALIDITY:

Must have courts, internet and capitalism.

Universities, too.

Prominent lawyer @@randomname@@ recently quit his prestigious criminal prosecution job, [...] The senior partner at @@HIS@@ firm

Prosecutors work for the government, not law firms.

What's wrong with speaking plainly in own language?

"in one's own language?"

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Universities, too.

There's currently no way no track this, but that's okay, as there's no way to ban universities either, I think.

Prosecutors work for the government, not law firms.

Good point. Changed to defence.

[Trotterdam]

There's currently no way no track this, but that's okay, as there's no way to ban universities either, I think.

#209: Students Demand Financial Aid [Rajlworld; ed:Sirocco]

4. "Why bother with universities anyway," says refuse collector @@RANDOMNAME@@. "These students could be working and earning a living instead of wasting time and money learning things with no point whatsoever. Who needs to know about ancient Maxtopian poetry, huh? Who would hire you for that? There are plenty of jobs out there, so why don't they go and get one? I'll tell you why: it's because they are lazy. I propose the government close all universities in @@NAME@@ and make people get a job after they leave school. With all the money saved from closing down universities we can have a well-deserved tax cut too."

Other anti-education options like #40 5 and #374 3 also deserve a mention. (#64 4 is less like this than it used to be.)

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Good point.

Good case for a new policy being introduced, I think, as this is not a decision that is directly tracked at present.

[Jutsa]

On the other hand, having read this, I don't see why your nation needs to have internet.

Then again, it could be hidden in some of that Latin that I couldn't understand but found hysterical by option 2.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

I think the reason I've said internet is needed is because these sorts of businesses only really took off in the age of the internet. The trading of ideas and essays as a commodity on a large scale only becomes economically viable when operating in the information age.

I do have the second option mentioning a "website", but that is because I believe that the narrative makes no sense in a non-internet society. It just doesn't ring true that an essay-writing service could be more profitable than legal work if the internet doesn't exist.

[Australian rePublic]

RE: Option 3-are you sure that all legal languages contain Latin?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

RE: Option 3-are you sure that all legal languages contain Latin?

They don't in every real world country, but then most real world countries don't have English as their primary language either.

Latin is the legal language in territories where English is the primary language. Players mentally pretending that the English of speakers is a different language can do the same for the Latin.