The Illustrated Guide to Law

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A Brief History of Government in Six Revolutions

TRT 1968: I landed here due to a comment about deleting browser cookies, but I'm a bit of a Law junkie and so I read on. Great comic, by the way - love it. So clear cut. Anyway, I w...

Carl Jung: The threat of punishment is no deterrent. If it were, prisons would be empty. The threat of punishment only motivates people to take measures to avoid being caught....

kwxx: Can you claim the fifth when your testimony could incriminate your legal dependents?...

Fax: Nonsense. What's stopping India from deciding where and to whom their laws apply?...

Fax: Crossing a bridge is a crime? Good to know....

Robert Montrose: There are some critiques of the 2011 study in https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/city-living-and-your-mental-health-is-city-living-driving-you-crazy/ though...

Nathan: Minor quibble: Instead of larger "groups," I'd say larger/denser "populations." I was about to give a reason, but… I really don't know why this matters to me! It seems to, b...

sewblon: What are the sources for the fun fact about children being raised in larger groups, especially boys, developing less grey matter in parts of the brain associated with conscien...

Nathan: If you define a meme as a true genetic analogue? As a discrete unit carrying a distinct element of culture? Yeah, that's iffy. That's not really how culture works. If you def...

sewblon: "That was not the end of it. But that’s also where it starts to get harder to ascribe purely genetic cause-and-effect. Because now we had the memes of our cultures spreading...

Nathan: Yes, similar results are seen in studies from a variety of countries. One of the coolest studies, from I want to say 2017 or 2018, came out of Germany. They were looking at t...

Nathan: It is absolutely true that humans have continued to evolve. The book you cite to may not be the most accurate source, as most of the really cool discoveries have been made sin...

STM: I wonder if the data on mental illness and urban/rural residence controls for income, social class, race, healthcare access, support networks, etc; not to mention subcultural ...

SeanR: This one is better. It shows the density. ...

SeanR: Most, perhaps, but there appears to be a strong correlation between how densely populated an area is and how it'll vote. ...

sewblon: I thought that most left-wingers and most right-wingers both lived in the suburbs. There are hardly any people who live in genuinely rural areas in the U.S. because of the mec...

SeanR: I think this is a key component in the US Left-Right divide. Those on the Right tend to be more rural, while those on the Left tend to be more urban. What we demand of our nei...

jb: It isn't necessarily true that "the effects on our brains [or anything really] haven't changed one bit". There is good reason to believe that all the changes in human society ...

sewblon: "Give in or give up." What exactly is the difference?...

Scott McNay: I didn't say it was GOOD medical care....

WELCOME to the Illustrated Guide to LawThe webcomic that teaches what the law really is…how the law really works (and doesn’t work)… and why!

WELCOME to the Illustrated Guide to Law

The webcomic that teaches what the law really is…
how the law really works (and doesn’t work)… and why!