Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Noya
“A popular quote from Nicolas Gomez Davila, ‘Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies,’ reflects the idea that a healthy and mature society should not be preoccupied with constantly creating new laws, prescribing to itself a cocktail of legislative remedies to fix its mounting problems. An over-lawyered society is a society in decay. Everything is disputed. There are sharp divisions, exacerbated by a dishonest and hypocritical facade of ‘shared values’ that only mask the deepening hostility. The growing raft of new legislation is intended to shore up crumbling institutions, and also to give new legal weaponry to the different factions waging increasingly acrimonious lawfare among themselves.” (10/15/24)