Since you allude to my response, let me allude to yours.
Jacobowsky said that there are always two possibilities
- You missed the intent of my sarcasm, or
- You wish to deflect the intent of my sarcasm
Since it was sarcasm, the answer is “none.”
Gladly!
Laws are not immutable. Just because a law exists does not mean it’s a good thing. In your wonderful country there was a law that allowed people to own people. Then you people changed your mind and, after much bloodshed, scrapped that law and replaced it with other laws some of which are creating new problems. Same with liquor, Prohibition. Same with opioids. Why do you keep making new laws in Congress, in the Oval Office, and in courts if laws are so wonderful already?
Our neighbours had three mango trees planted right next to our garage. My mother and the neighbour’s wife had a running squabble over the leaves and fruit falling on the roof of the garage. The neighbour’s wife objected to us eating the fruit while my mother objected to the falling leaves. The squabble got so bad the neighbours cut down the mango trees. Lucky for us, induced by a botany class in grade school, I had planted a mango seed in our back yard and it gave fruit for years. My Mom made a wonderful Jalea de Mango…
Years later i wondered who was right in the squabble. Our Civil Code made it perfectly clear, while hanging from the tree the mangoes belonged to the neighbours, once they dropped on our roof, they were ours. This squabble must have been thousands of years old. In England these situations are governed by “Common Law” [the part of English law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes. Often contrasted with statutory law]. The Napoleonic Code, the base of the Venezuelan law, also makes reference to custom and precedent.
What are the customs and precedents applicable to executive pay that allow judges to determine them? It seems to me that Tesla is once again breaking new ground. Maybe it’s time to revoke some obsolete laws or interpretations thereof.
Believing blindly in legal laws is the same mistake as believing blindly in 'Science." Aristotle believed his eyes, that you had to push things to keep them moving. Newton believed the contrary, that things kept on moving uniformly until something pushed them. Newton believed that a force called gravity pushed things around. Einstein believed that gravity was not a force but the result of a curvature of space-time.
The lesson is that one can believe in the Scientific Method while not believing any particular deduction no matter how many scientists agree. The whole Catholic Church believed that the universe rotated around the earth. Millions of Catholics were wrong!
“Keep an open mind” is good advice!
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