pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year ago[Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?message-squaremessage-square318fedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down123
arrow-up1156arrow-down1message-square[Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agomessage-square318fedilink
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down3·1 year agoAll laws must be beneficial to all the children of the next 9 generations. All laws that aren’t part of the constitution, or charter have a 20 year sunset date.
minus-squarenoqturn@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up18·1 year agoI agree in principle, but this is practically unenforceable. How do we determine as a society what will be beneficial in 9 generations, and agree?
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYou build a timemachine. You set a date for the future. If the machine says that it cannot generate a portal at that date, you edit the policy until it does.
minus-squareNAXLAB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoWhat will benefit the children born in 200 years?
minus-squarepinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agoLong term space colonization Stopping climate collapse Complete restructuring of our social and legal systems A few little things here and there, really
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI tend to agree with pinkdrunkenelephants
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoJefferson proposed the idea, didn’t get the Continental Congress to agree
All laws must be beneficial to all the children of the next 9 generations.
All laws that aren’t part of the constitution, or charter have a 20 year sunset date.
I agree in principle, but this is practically unenforceable. How do we determine as a society what will be beneficial in 9 generations, and agree?
You build a timemachine. You set a date for the future. If the machine says that it cannot generate a portal at that date, you edit the policy until it does.
How would that be determined?
Fuck, yeah!
What will benefit the children born in 200 years?
Long term space colonization
Stopping climate collapse
Complete restructuring of our social and legal systems
A few little things here and there, really
I tend to agree with pinkdrunkenelephants
Law sunset time is interesting.
Jefferson proposed the idea, didn’t get the Continental Congress to agree