RE: Graphing the Zeroth Constitution, Articles B and C
I think if you're going this route all subcomponents and terms should be delved into as well. "Legal Person may NOT initiate Aggression against another Human Being, unless the other is Right Now Aggressing against them .." --> initiate is undefined and is a subjective act that falls within a spectrum, ie. I will kick your ass if you look at my wife the wrong way: in that I'm initiating the physical confrontation by some standards but by others you have initiated the entire exchange by looking at her the wrong way.
Your definition of "Right Now" is 'within a matter of several minutes'. That's not an automatic response. If you punch me and I sit there for a minute pondering, then realize I'm pissed off and go back to my car nearby and take out my gun and blow you away, several minutes have passed. But I had a chance to sit there and ponder and my blowing you away isn't an automatic reaction. On the flip side, if you punched me hard enough to lay me out and I come to lets say half hour later and hit you back, more than several minutes have passed.
Also a PDF version would be easier to read than the image.
Good points. But isn't that what the legal framework is for? If you look at any constitution you don't see ever term defined explicitly. Perhaps because I have take the approach to define the most important terms explicitly it implies that all should, but as your examples point out that's not practical.
About your example though. The definition of aggression does not support an interpretation of looking at someone the wrong way. I think in all cases of aggression it does basically come down to who shot first so to speak, so that matters a lot.
I agree that the definition of "right now" could be improved, I on purpose went for the first thing to hand to give the impression of what I wanted to arrive at. How would you improve that definition?
The problem with a PDF version is that I'd need to host it somewhere. steemit.com doens't support drag and drop for PDFs. If you right click on the images you'll find they're actually really large so can read them better that way.
Thanks for your comments so far! 😁