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How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? where would be the foundation of morals, if particular characters had no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, and if these sentiments had no constant operation on actions?

-David Hume

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How Could Politics Be A Science, If

David Hume

How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? where would be the foundation of morals, if particular characters had no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, and if these sentiments had no constant operation on actions?

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State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to congress. ... inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass. no direct general power over these objects is granted to congress, and, consequently, they remain subject to state legislation.

Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. it's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. a survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.

All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). the infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. for the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. it can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they could perform right now that might save their lives. ... they have a 90 percent chance of surviving the operation — if you tell them that, they respond one way. if you tell them ... that they have a 10 percent chance of being killed by the operation, they are about three times less likely to have the operation.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. in this sense all beings have their laws: the deity his laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

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