Law's Expanding Empire, Jonathan Sumption - The Reith Lectures, 21 May 2019
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- Jonathan Sumption argues that the law is taking over the space once occupied by politics.
Lord Sumption was until recently a justice of the UK’s Supreme Court, as well as being a distinguished historian.
In this lecture, recorded before an audience at Middle Temple in London, Lord Sumption says that until the 19th century, law only dealt with a narrow range of human problems. That has now changed radically. And he argues that the growth of the law, driven by demand for greater personal security and less risk, means we have less liberty.
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This Reith Lecture is:
presented and chaired by Anita Anand
produced by Jim Frank
Editor: Hugh Levinson
The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation's first Director-General.
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A sheer tour de force of a presentation.
Thank you for an Excellent Lecture Lord Jonathan Sumption! The law, Democracy and Protection.
'every time that a public authority is blamed for failing to prevent some tragedy like this, it will tend to respond by restricting the liberty of the public at large, in order to deprive them of the opportunity to harm themselves'
I cannot get over the irony of this speech as foreshadowing to the global reaction to 'COVID-19'
39:07 "But I don't believe that there is necessarily a moral obligation to obey the law, and ultimately it is something that each person has to decide within his own conscience." Think for yourself - what an interesting concept. Maybe the government should listen to this.
Excellent
How interesting!
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.
Loved the way Sumption took out barrister Patrick O'Connor.
PO walked into that one kamikaze style.
43:10
😂😂 wonderful phraseology & delightful put down
@@SkyEcho7😂Thank you for this valuable
The idea of hate speech must be narrowed to specific calls for violence not the my feelings got hurt nonsense we have now
Whose idea of "hate speech"? Particular beings have particular ideas.
Whose 'idea' is to be 'narrowed'(presumably limited) by who? How does one limit ideas?
There is no legal idea(law, or possibly offence, of "hate speech", which is religious/moralistic idea.
There is a very good reason why there is no crime or offence of hate speech and that is because it is impossible to define it with any degree of precision or clarity.
One of the disadvantages of religion or moralistic thinking is that it tends to distort the reason that the point where it is incapable of functioning to the extent where it sees that which is not there, for example it can be distorted to see hatred where is merely disapproval or disagreement or even mild criticism. Historically the law has tended to reflect moralistic or religious ideas, or what particular judges or groups of judges regard as widely held mores or customary attitudes adopted by sufficient number of people for them to be tantamount to religion, which is precisely what the contemporary official religion that I call them modernism is, and has the effect of distorting the capacity of human beings to reason calmly and impartially, to the point where the followers of that religion see any form of mild disagreement or criticism as hatred, which none exhibit more than them themselves, and you get absurdities such as David Cameron pronouncing (without the flicker of a smile) "we must not tolerate intolerance"; his reason has been so distorted by the religion modernism that he cannot see the absurdity or internal inconsistency or contradiction of that particular pronouncement - Behold how religion tends to distort predicate or condition the reason or the capacity to see what is.
One of the dangers or difficulties of religion is that it tends to be used as a hammer rather than a scalpel, and as the saying goes: "To a man with a hammer everything looks more or less like a nail."
People have gone soft. Nobody can take criticism because they have been indoctrinated in schools in _what_ to think, rather than _how_ to think. This is the result. Many people are unable to take responsibility for themselves their lives and actions because they have been taught to rely on others to make decisions for them and tell them what to do and how to live.
How ahead of his time he was..........CV19.
My worry with assisted dying carried out by relatives would be more they wouldn't do a very good job. I would want a pain free death and hope someone skilled would be better.
Yea, how ironic, and his wonderfu; you tibe upon the covid restrictions, he is my hero. Considered, thoughtful and calm. Immune to hysteria.
BTW I live in Victoria....we now have permanent legislation... a state that is broke and under administration managed to garner support to impose this.
@Lea Bushnell
'...his wonderful you tibe upon the civic restrictions...'?