Legal Taboos
The authors formalise a taboo as a prohibition on speaking (informing). Three levels of norms are distinguished. First are basic prohibitions, Forbidden X, i.e. norms which prohibit basic actions, Norm(¬X). Second-level norms comprise primary taboos which prohibit information about facts or fakes, Norm(¬Inf(X)), but permit them to happen. Third-level norms comprise meta-taboos, which prohibit information that a primary taboo exists, Norm(¬Inf(Norm(¬Inf(X)))). A taboo on the essential causes A of an effect E can be officially camouflaged with a fake relationship between certain facts B and E.
Table of contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Taboo as a Prohibition to Speak
- 3. Three Levels of Norms on Prohibition
- 4. Taboo on a Combination of Three Elements of a Relation
- 5. Related Work
- 6. Conclusions
- 7. References
