A big problem with nearly anything that human beings do centers on insufficiencies in communication. This is especially significant where politics are concerned.
Consider the criminal justice system. How many of you are aware that the law dictionaries upon which lawyers and judges rely have absolutely pathetic definitions of terms such as "law" (!!!) and "crime"? Seriously guys, get your hands on copies of various law dictionaries such as Black's and Bouvier's (there are quite a few more, BTW) and look up those two terms. The definitions border on the idiotic.
I have been thinking that there exists a set of terms for which scientifically rigorous definitions should exist for many reasons including but not limited to removing the ability of politicians and other agents of the Tyrant from doing what they do so successfully, which is to twist and manipulate word meanings to suit their agendas.
What so you all think of the idea and would you be willing to help with it? A list of terms vital to the cause of liberty would be the first step.
And if anyone has a better name for this endeavor, I'm all ears.
ETA:
Per suggestion, I am adding to this post the most current swags at the terms thus far addressed. To wit:
Law: n. A validly enforceable rule that is: a) based upon one or more axiomatic and objectively demonstrable truths, b) follows strictly from the postulations upon which it is based, c) conforms perfectly with the propositions from which it strictly follows, d) addresses criminal acts by one human being against another human being other than himself, e) provides no immunity to itself, but is universally applicable to all human praxis relevant to the rule, g) restricts human behavior such that it either prohibits or compels it. Law always addresses acts mala in sé, and never addresses acts mala prohibita, the latter being wholly invalid, unjust, violative of basic human rights, is reflective only of the arbitrary whim and caprice of legislators without authority. Such statutes are not Law, and are therefore null and void, carrying with then no valid force of law, the enforcement of which constitutes felonious color of authority.
Any exception to a Law, whether specified in the Law itself, or in another Law, must itself meet all the required specifications of a Law.**
** Not at all sure about this one, but throwing it out in case it is valid.
Crime: n. A willful or negligent act of commission or omission such that the property rights of a human being, the victim, are violated or otherwise trespassed upon by the actions or a defectum voluntarium of another man, the perpetrator, who is not the victim of such acts. All crimes are violations by a perpetrator against property rights of a victim. In order for a crime to have occurred, a provable material harm must have been sustained by a victim at the hands of a perpetrator, whether directly or indirectly in terms of ultimate results, and in terms of agency. Indirect harm and agency, in order to be established, must demonstrate a causal chain connecting the actions of an alleged perpetrator to the losses sustained by an alleged victim. Each condition is necessary, yet insufficient in itself, save that all are met in any given case.
The drafting of criminal Law entails the principled demonstration of how the act in question qualifies as a crime must be established and proved. The victim must be validly defined in terms of the material losses sustained by the criminal act.
Defectum Voluntarium†: n. The willful failure by a human being, as promisor, to do as he has pledged for another human being, the promisee, who is other than the promisor, such that under the necessarily dire and exigent circumstances to the promisee under which the promisor has made the promise, the promisee comes to severe harm, where fulfillment of the promise by the promisor would not have lead to the promisor to come to harm, and where at the time of failure, the promisee had no alternate options for escaping the threat of imminent harm that ultimately lead to the harm incurred. Under such circumstances, a promisor assumes responsibility to make every good-faith effort to fulfill the promise he made up to the point that to do so would likely result in severe harm to himself.
Amended Crime: n. A crime for which
† Changed "Explicit Failure" to "Defectum Voluntarium" so I can sound smarter than I actually am.
