The Illustrated Guide to Law

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A Brief History of Government in Six Revolutions

sewblon: Paleolithic peoples would never have said that they have religion, because religion was not a concept until the 19th century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5KHDR8jdbA&l...

sewblon: Religion (In the sense of animism combined with belief in an after-life, shamanism, and ritual) has been around since the upper-paleolithic. Its been around since before ances...

UsaSatsui: In a bondage scenario you are still able to give or withdraw consent (through a safe word or action). Unless your bondage sessions tend to cause unconsciousness, in which cas...

Da5id: Sorry, I was wrong: The Soviet Union did reject genetics as a whole; Lysenkoism was viewed as a different sort of biology....

David G Betz-Zall: Oh, and the Soviet Union didn't reject genetics, but rather Mendelian Genetics, in favor of Lysenkoist genetics. While for a long time that seemed crazy in hindsight, ther...

Da5id: I think that when Mike said “Think their way around” he meant that an important part of the Tao is teasing out hidden assumptions and taking things to the absurd, in order...

sewblon: This was supposed to be a reply to Mike Stone....

sewblon: What exactly do you mean by “Think their way around” a definition? There are athiests who act like that. But you don’t need to believe in modern science to be an atheist...

Gregory Thomas Bogosian: What exactly do you mean by "Think their way around" a definition? There are athiests who act like that. But you don't need to believe in modern science to be an atheist. The ...

Mike Stone: If you try to narrow the definition, you run into trouble with things like Taoism and animism. The Tao is especially fun.. there isn't a definition made that a good Taoist ca...

sewblon: That definition of religion is too broad. Explicitly atheist societies like the PRC also have a combination of non-normative and normative ideology that allows them to select ...

Arkanabar T'verrick Ilarsadin: That is tremendously helpful. I appreciate it....

mike stone: It depends on how you define things.. formally, a religion is the unified combination of a non-normative philosophy (strictly concerned with describing how things are, sometim...

sewblon: I thought that you said that we all ready had religion by this point in the form of ancestor worship. So shouldn't it be the road from religion in that case? Not the road to r...

sewblon: I tried to post this link to back this claim up earlier. I think that the website doesn't like my VPN. Maybe now it will work. Eugene Weber concurs. https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Nathan: Dangit! Thanks. Fixed....

SeanR: The new homepage doesn't link to this page yet. I only know about it because I got an email notification....

TRT 1968: It's one better up than 1/2. 2/3. I note that there's no mention of either quorate or abstentions....

TRT 1968: Well, I wish the model English had read this page and thought about it before they did that whole Brexit voting thingy....

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...

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!