Why are equality before the law, genuine justice – adequate, real laws, and a dispersed, neutralized form of power so essential if we truly wish to live well?
Because a society’s health depends on symmetry. An asymmetrically arranged post-industrial society—authoritarian rule, oligarchy, the sway of billionaires and dictators—creates an over-weighting and a structural imbalance that is bound to bring trouble, sooner or later, for every single member of that structure, one way or another.
Treat others as you would like to be treated. Don’t create enemies—it’s so easy and banal. Once violence breaks out, it’s very hard to reel it back in. Who really needs that? This isn’t some deep, abstract “destruction”; it’s mostly just stupidity. When you’ve run out of words and ideas, only then do you start to fight—and fighting ends up destroying you as well. The path here is razor-thin…
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