Jasmoni Tegga
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You have simply tied yourself up with your own rope! Wonderful, colorful words, but the content is angrily hungry!The law doesn’t exist or live, in a vacuum. Nor does it materialise out of thin air. The law is based on a society’s norms, which are drawn from its dominant civilization.
Norms are fountains of knowledge and wisdom in which the law is sheathed. The law can protect you, or harm you. Like a sword, it’s double-edged and cuts both ways. It’s indeterminate.
That’s why laws and norms are end products of political processes. They are the distillation of social, ethical, religious or class-based interests of elites.
Often, laws are a class imposition by a hegemonic group, or elites in society over subordinate, or subaltern, strata.