Sunday, March 16, 2014

[dwrpqllb] Fuzzy boundaries

Two vague ideas about abandoning the idea of sharp geographical boundaries for legal jurisdiction.

The strength of the law decreases with distance, for example, the amount of fines or length of prison term.  The outer lying areas are more anarchic in a precisely mathematically specified way.

For a disputed region, the law is a linear combination of the laws of each neighboring region, possibly again a function of distance to each neighbor.  This has the desirable property that if both neighbors agree on exactly on a certain law, that law will also hold at full strength throughout the disputed region.

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