Or in the legal arena: “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.”
Completely tangentially, what does this mean?
what does this mean?
In theory it means that it’s better to NOT follow the (established / agreed-to) rules when it clearly leads to major negative consequences.
In practice it usually means “We really want to do this and we’re not going to have mere laws stand in our way”.
Got it, thanks. It’s a nice pithy way of phrasing it.
Completely tangentially, what does this mean?
In theory it means that it’s better to NOT follow the (established / agreed-to) rules when it clearly leads to major negative consequences.
In practice it usually means “We really want to do this and we’re not going to have mere laws stand in our way”.
Got it, thanks. It’s a nice pithy way of phrasing it.