civilization?

[Advocate]

If the first rule of society was "Do whatever you can get away with.", we would expect to find a society that looks exactly like the one we have today.

[commonsense]

If the first rule of society was "Do whatever you can get away with.", we would expect to find a society that looks exactly like the one we have today.

If the first rule was, “It is OK to do whatever you can lawyer out of”, our society would look exactly like it does now.

[Advocate]

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[quote=Advocate post_id=470652 time=1599850183 user_id=15238]
If the first rule of society was "Do whatever you can get away with.", we would expect to find a society that looks exactly like the one we have today.
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If the first rule was, “It is OK to do whatever you can lawyer out of”, our society would look exactly like it does now.
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Different words, same concept.

[commonsense]

If the first rule of society was "Do whatever you can get away with.", we would expect to find a society that looks exactly like the one we have today.

If the first rule was, “It is OK to do whatever you can lawyer out of”, our society would look exactly like it does now.

Different words, same concept.

Yes, same general concept.