Societies depend on agreed rules.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.
Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
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