Law
Supposing that what we believe, we are, and we define ourselves and our own truths, then what need is there for Laws? If every person is a law unto themselves, are we not all justified in seeking our own paths to righteousness? Why encumber ourselves with outside, archaic, moralistic laws?
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Suppose that my path to righteousness involves killing everyone else. That gets in the way of most everyone elses paths.
Without law, there would be no way to regulate the interference of others into our own lives. |
Re: Law
We do not live in an utopia or it would be true that we would not need outside laws. Unfortunately there are flaws in humanity and some of us are incapable of creating our own laws that do not interfere with other's personal laws. Thus we have laws to protect us from that interferance.
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In the words of George Washington "If men were all angels, government would not be necessary. But Men are not angels."
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I'm currently student-teaching and am learning classroom management skills. When you tell a kid to do something, the first thing that flashes through his brain is, "Do I _have_ to? What happens if I don't?" The calculations are immediate, and if he thinks it's safe he'll test the limits you set to see what he can get away with. In any situation in our society, grown men and women make the same calculation a thousand times a day -- about obeying the traffic laws, doing the taxes properly, taking a shortcut through private property, "borrowing" a pen from somebody else's desk, and so on. It's just human nature, and so far I see no angels in the building. |
Law is simply to give order. We are still called to define our own truths, imho. I believe those truths, if tuned into the universe/humanity/God/whatever you call it, should bring us to a level of performance that is better than the law. (Example, the law does not state that I must support my church, but I do. The law does not say to donate food to the poor, but I do, etc.)
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