LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: John Stuart Mill, False Consciousness, Ant-Zen
24 Dec 2016
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Criminalized behavior of individual or interacting contesting adults. Much debate as to whether such crimes are truly victimless. Where there is no specific victim, broad groups (a gender, an age group, or a victim of an offence. In other cases, participating individuals consent is theoretically and practically called into question. Individual choices can be problematized as pathological or as internalized domination/depression position i. e. vulnerable) or society itself can come to be understood as the. Protecting people from themselves the problem of false consciousness. Vulnerability and exploitation - root causes, and the failures to address them. Basic idea of false consciousness comes from the karl marx. Sometimes, dominated people are unable to realize what they are choosing to do even what they think is desirable, is actually hurting them (prostitution vs. starvation). Help the law account for otherwise irrational or destructive personal choices,
