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Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / Re: Thank God For Straight White Men... Derek Hunter
« Last post by The_Reader_David on Today at 05:17:38 pm »Modern science, technology, medicine, and the norms of Anglo-Saxon law are all very strong arguments for the superiority of the culture of Europe, and specifically north-western Europe.
I wonder whether the protestors would like to be tried for a crime under a system of law that lacked writs of habeas corpus, trial by jury, the presumption of innocence, and the requirement that the state proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt? Would they prefer Islamic law? Chinese legalism? Code Napoleon? The Code of Hammurabi? The legal system the prevailed in Benin when its kings were selling fellow-Africans to European traders as slaves? Whatever systems of law prevailed among the Aztecs or the Hindus before European colonialism replace them? Didn't think so, I suspect they all like the Anglo-Saxon system just fine and will daddy's lawyer on speed-dial in case their protest goes sideways.
As Jordan Peterson put it "The Common Law is a bloody miracle!"
I wonder whether the protestors would like to be tried for a crime under a system of law that lacked writs of habeas corpus, trial by jury, the presumption of innocence, and the requirement that the state proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt? Would they prefer Islamic law? Chinese legalism? Code Napoleon? The Code of Hammurabi? The legal system the prevailed in Benin when its kings were selling fellow-Africans to European traders as slaves? Whatever systems of law prevailed among the Aztecs or the Hindus before European colonialism replace them? Didn't think so, I suspect they all like the Anglo-Saxon system just fine and will daddy's lawyer on speed-dial in case their protest goes sideways.
As Jordan Peterson put it "The Common Law is a bloody miracle!"