Then I go in the den and turn on Law
David LevithanTag: tv law-and-order
There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do not believe in a god, who do they believe gives the Universal Law of following good and shunning evil? Obviously, mankind. But then that is a dangerous thing, for if a man does not believe in a god capable of giving perfect laws, he is in the position of declaring all laws come from man, and as man is imperfect, he can declare that as fallible men make imperfect laws, he can pick and choose what he wishes to follow, that which, in his own mind seems good. He does not believe in divine retribution, therefore he can also declare his own morality contrary to what the divine may decree simply because he believes there is no divine decree. He may follow his every whim and passion, declaring it to be good when it may be very evil, for he like all men is imperfect, so how can he tell what is verily good? The atheist is in danger of mistaking vice for good and consequently follow another slave master and tyrant, his own physical and mental weakness. Evil would be wittingly or unwittingly perpetrated, therefore, to recognise the existence of a perfect divine being that gives perfect Universal Laws is much better than not to believe in a god, for if there is a perfect god, they will not allow their laws to be broken with impunity as in the case with many corrupt judges on earth, but will punish accordingly in due time. Therefore, to be pious and reverent is the surest path to true freedom as a perfect god will give perfect laws to prevent all manner of slavery, tyranny and moral wantonness, even if we do not understand why they are good laws at times.
E.A. BucchianeriTag: wisdom free-will morality freedom philosophy evil god religion tyranny atheism good atheist philosophical law slavery good-and-evil reverence atheists piety pious gadfly law-and-order philosophy-of-religion theological
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: ethics law corruption government lawyers modern-society modern-life modernity modernity-is-a-sickness governement courts ethical-behaviour law-and-order business-ethics court-system the-supreme-court
It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.
Kim Stanley RobinsonTag: compromise congress law-and-order lawmakers
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tag: justice social-progress law-and-order
I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: anarchy law-and-order
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