Fun facts: the UK has crazy laws protecting trees and hedgerows. There’s a national tree registry for old boys.

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      6 months ago

      Someone thought me the concept of a legal fiction and I still think about it.

      Land ownership, companies, nation states, citizenship: all exist because we agree that it does.

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      6 months ago

      Technically, how all law really works at its core.

      Well, that and the threat of overwhelming unilateral violence