If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.
The argument that a giant art-stealing robot would be illegal, and thus proves that law is a social construct, draws on a central idea of legal philosophy known as legal positivism. It is a valid line of reasoning from that philosophical perspective, though other theories disagree.
"If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's #art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct."
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