1 February

I think law is a beautiful thing, and the beauty of it isn’t often seen. What I see as most beautiful is that it shows us that we are often wrong in the way we understand the relationship between individual things and general things. Between small things and big things, one of my biggest interests. In law there are cases, where individuals go to court. The individual. Each case is considered against all other cases that have been to court - the case law. Each case can also set a precedent, which means alter the case law. You can see that at no point is there an actual difference between the individual and the general case, the case law precedents are themselves made up of individual cases, and each individual case can alter the case law. In ethics this approach is called casuistry, where each situation has to be examined according to its specific details, and assessed against previous cases. It’s an approach, like law, that rejects any splitting of situations into specific and general, individual and general, big and small.