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@Humpleupagus @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @Paulyfrog64 this is why I liken "law", in this age, to "fractional-reserve currency" (cc'ing @plotinus_enjoyer for this one), except that instead of gold specie underlying it, the reserve of law is "violence"

these creatures - being far removed from even the most notional conceptions of violence except as a theoretical entity, and because they are so far removed from it - wantonly exercise raw power without constraint; as far as they're concerned, it's just a job, a game whose numbers they grind out and minmax until they have enough juice to springboard to a political career or a white-shoe law firm for big bucks

not a single one of them, or so near as to make no difference, has a conception of the idea that there is a metaphysical duty, on their part, to participate in not just a legal system but a justice system, which requires the active connivance of all participants towards that goal; sort of like physicians and the Hippocratic Oath, the idea of a sacred duty has been devalued to the point of laughability (and they do laugh at the idea)

in a better world, such men would at the very least be called out for trial by combat by the aggrieved victims of their malicious lawfare; the survivors would learn quickly that the tools they employ are not to be wielded with either lightness of heart or lightness of purpose, and would become far more reticent to engage in the blatant abortions of justice they now perpetrate on the regular

in this world at the present time, the likelier outcome (soon) is that they will be called out for, uh, "surprise" trial by combat (involving L-shaped formations around geographic bottlenecks and that sort of thing)