Post No.: 0317 Furrywisepuppy says: Offender or criminal profiling is about determining the potential characteristics of an offender by examining the characteristics of a crime scene, the victim(s) and the crime itself. This is based on patterns found … Read More
Post No.: 0305 Fluffystealthkitten says: It was previously mentioned by Furrywisepuppy in Post No.: 0089 that, in Contract law, ambiguity shall be interpreted with the benefit of the doubt in favour of all persons who did not draft … Read More
Post No.: 0275 Furrywisepuppy says: What we each perceive as reality is a subjective yet elaborate reconstruction of reality – of minds interpreting information from senses, coloured by personal expectation and open to influence. ‘Naïve realism’ is the … Read More
Post No.: 0267 Fluffystealthkitten says: In the parliament of the UK, there is a bicameral system, which means that it has two chambers. The House of Commons (or ‘lower house’ of the UK Parliament; the House of Representatives … Read More
Post No.: 0263 Furrywisepuppy says: ‘Gross domestic product’ (GDP) is the market valuation of all the final goods and services produced within a given time period in a country. It’s highly debatable as an adequate measure of an … Read More
Post No.: 0235 Furrywisepuppy says: This follows on from Post No.: 0199 and our brief overview of the different main areas of law, which I believe are very useful for everyone to learn about. Once more, one must … Read More
Post No.: 0206 Furrywisepuppy says: There is generally a false dichotomy between politically ‘rightwing’ and ‘leftwing’ people. There are a lot of different schools of philosophy and they don’t fit neatly along one single linear dimension. For instance, … Read More
Post No.: 0199 Furrywisepuppy says: Again, it’s tricky and maybe foolhardy trying to generalise legal topics that may come with various local differences depending on a country or state’s particular laws, but bearing this in mind… Tort … Read More
Post No.: 0181 Furrywisepuppy says: Something as arbitrary or random as a coin toss to determine who goes into which group/team/class can be alone enough to create strong ingroup biases (i.e. the ‘heads’ members favouring other ‘heads’ members … Read More
Post No.: 0172 Furrywisepuppy says: Every sovereign country’s own laws are somewhat individual thus trying to generalise legal topics comes with this caveat. Nevertheless, there are some patterns across major parts of the world because of how legal … Read More
Post No.: 0147 Furrywisepuppy says: A direct democracy (or pure democracy) is a form of democracy where citizens directly vote to decide on political matters, as opposed to electing representatives who in turn decide on political matters on … Read More
Post No.: 0106 Fluffystealthkitten says: Do deterrents such as possessing nuclear weapons work? So far, since WWII at least, they haven’t been used in ‘hot’ anger (although they’ve played a key part of a tense and long ‘cold’ … Read More
Post No.: 0089 Furrywisepuppy says: Now it’s incredibly difficult, or perhaps even foolhardy or pointless, to generalise for a global audience a subject such as law because of the different laws and legal systems of different countries (or … Read More
Post No.: 0076 Fluffystealthkitten says: To follow on from Post No.: 0032, the problem of spoiler candidates in General Elections is that relatively similar political parties can take votes away from each other e.g. two or more relatively … Read More
Post No.: 0068 Fluffystealthkitten says: A lot of liberals (‘supporters of individual choice’ definition) and economic libertarians support democracy and the majority rule (where the electorate or ‘political market’ collectively decides the candidates or outcomes for all) – … Read More
Post No.: 0032 Fluffystealthkitten says: Democracy is not perfect but is, on balance, said to be better than all the other previously tried forms of governance. No one is saying don’t ever vote, especially when some groups have … Read More
Post No.: 0010 Furrywisepuppy says: Politics is and involves every single citizen, and it’s barely just about voting once every few years or so (hence for many things you don’t need to be of voting age). Leave it … Read More
