A Law Not Enforced Is No Law At All
It is often said that a man who does not read is no better off than a man who cannot read. Along that same line, certainly laws that are made in our name and under the logic of our Constitution are worthless when they are ignored.
Stop signs work only because we collectively agree to stop.
But what if we didn’t? Or what if some of us didn’t, or a few of us didn’t, or if specific individuals among us didn’t? What would be the effect upon society? Does our agreement to stop go further than the impact on driving?
It’s an interesting line of thought, that doesn’t stop with stop-signs.
Consider civil society. We are more and more un-civil, from road-rage to slamming phones to beating our spouses. But why? The case can be made that a universal de-sensitizing of America, through TV, video-games, rap-music and an apparently endless thirst for violence in all its graphic forms, led us to a disconnect between the event and the person to whom the event is happening. The result?
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