After reading everyone's cogent analyses and criticisms, I gave them
some more thought and decided that since obviously a country (society)
and government are not the same thing, then are government and law the
same thing?
This makes things a bit simpler for me. Let's say law is an inherent
part of society. Society cannot exist without it.
But is law something that is created or discovered? That to me is an
extremely important point. Seems to it is has to be discovered. If it's
'created' then it's anything rulers make it to be! Slavery's ok,
genocide's ok!
It's like the 'law of gravity.' It was discovered, not created. You
just can't create a law that says "Ping-pong balls will now float."
In this case, I put 'discovered' laws inherently in society. 'Created'
laws--laws that mean anything--belong firmly in biology, since they can
only be enforced through violence. Biological 'might makes right.'
I thnk this explains why certain countries are much better to live in
than others. The good countries have a tradition of 'discovered' law.
The rest believe in 'created' law--whatever the rulers want. The
'created' laws in Nazism, Fascism and Communism led to who knows how
many hundreds of millions dead.
It seems that 'created' law leds ultimately to either of two
things--tyranny or chaos. Hitler or Genghis Khan.
If this is true, the conclusion I come to is that the purpose of
intellectuals is to 'discover' law, which then advances society.
Intellectuals who believe in 'created' law are the ones who make society
go backward, since they destroy society and allow biological values to
reign supreme. Then, again, there are only two courses; tyranny or
chaos.
Governments that believe in 'discovered' law exists in the level of
society. Governments that believe in 'created' law exist in the level of
biology.
Every tyranny has its intellectual apologists and propagandists.
Any comments?
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