You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
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Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.
I started to think about the assumptions we make that everyone we meet operates under the same moral code, and how betrayed we feel when that isn't the case.
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.
I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
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