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JosephLuFirstPaper 3 - 26 Mar 2009 - Main.IanSullivan
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- I think Robinson is irrelevant here. The disagreement over whether the criminal law is the pathology of the civilization feels contrived, even though it may well have served as a perfectly useful jumping-off point for the voyage you actually took, it's no longer germane to the communication with your reader.
- The North Korean government may be achieving all the aims you specify, or it may only be achieving the aim of communicating externally the impression that it has done so. Hyper-draconian legal systems come into existence in extremely disturbed social environments, including war zones, and are sometimes prolonged in a centralized fashion. But the cost of intensive enforcement is high, and the usual result is to drift towards activity that gives the impression of completeness without incurring the cost of actual omnipresence. The 21st century's technologies of surveillance may shift that curve frighteningly in the supposedly "free" societies.
- But for the moment, we can't be sure what is actually happening in North Korea, so we can only speculate about how the system works in detail. So far as the pathologies of the people are concerned, most will be the sorrowful consequences of material deprivation. Everything else, except the possession of nuclear weapons, is almost certainly subsidiary.
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