Social standards penetrating the legal machine prove crueler than law

Evidence

Homo sacer was a legal construction. As a legal construct, it was addressed to the loyalty and discipline of law-abiding subjects, not to their beliefs and sentiments. Like all legal constructs it bypassed or suspended feelings and personal beliefs, as well as moral emotions, and as far as the required action was concerned cast them into irrelevance. The point about law is that it is expected to be obeyed whether or not the law-abiding person likes it, dislikes it, or has no feelings about it. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 705 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Legal constructs operate by bypassing the subject’s moral emotions — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 705; Societal requirements transform into self-justifying norms devoid of social origin; Public humiliation substitutes for weak legal enforcement of debts

Related

• Legal constructs operate by bypassing the subject’s moral emotions (similarity 0.89)
• Social standards become cruel laws when they penetrate the legal and political machine (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Societal requirements transform into self-justifying norms devoid of social origin #corroborates (0.78)
• Legal constructs operate by bypassing the subject’s moral emotions #corroborates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 705
• Public humiliation substitutes for weak legal enforcement of debts #complicates (0.75)