The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.
Societies depend on agreed rules.
People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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