THE FLAW INSTITUTE
WTF happens when humans make rules for humaning?
Humans have been making rules for thousands of years.
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The Pool of Rules
- Who owns what.
- Who owes whom.
- Who can marry whom.
- What counts as a crime.
- Who gets punished.
- Who gets protected.
- Who has authority.
- Who counts as a person.
- And what everybody is supposedly allowed to fucking do.
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The FLAW Institute investigates
- why humans invented law in the first place,
- what problems laws were trying to solve,
- whose interests they protected,
- what happened when they failed—
- and how yesterday's perfectly reasonable rule became today's WTF.
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Because law isn't nature.
Humans fucking made shit up.
Around here, we investigate
Law · authority · ownership · contracts · crime · punishment · justice · rights · governance · liability · personhood · regulation · historical law · institutional fuckery
And one question follows us everywhere:
What problem was this rule originally trying to solve?
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