I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing. For them, the law is a system of rules not that different from mathematics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.
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