This is all so abstract. Does it match how the world works?
Why are we talking about this? Because the National Enquirer knows how to get away with blackmail? What do you think of the hypothesis that blackmail is legal if lawyers get a cut? That sounds to me like the worst of both worlds.
I recently learned that UK politics is openly described in terms of blackmail. There is some equivocation and I’m not sure it’s actually true, but it isn’t a norm violation.
This is all so abstract. Does it match how the world works?
Why are we talking about this? Because the National Enquirer knows how to get away with blackmail? What do you think of the hypothesis that blackmail is legal if lawyers get a cut? That sounds to me like the worst of both worlds.
I recently learned that UK politics is openly described in terms of blackmail. There is some equivocation and I’m not sure it’s actually true, but it isn’t a norm violation.