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Derek's avatar

I'm a 76 Y-O Englishman, living in the East Midlands. I'm working class, never attended University. I'm noy a criminal, and have never been tempted to pursue criminality as a lifestyle, as some do. I particularly enjoyed reading what Justin Deschamps had to say about the Law, and legal Systems. From what I've read, legal systems the world over are largely the same, and the thing about them all is that they are built and composed in such a way that ordinary people cannot usually find their way about inside them. Therefore every Nation has an army of well-versed and well-heeled lawyers to help those trapped by that system to make sense of it. I describe these people as well-heeled, because, of course, the ordinary people have to pay for this help, sometimes a considerable amount of money changes hands for not very much work. Here in England, and I'm sure almost everywhere else, one cannot buy a house without the aid of a Solicitor, or make one's will, or whatever. There are very few instances involving conflict between an ordinary citizen and officialdom in which a lawyer does not become involved, for a fee, of course. I'm inclined to think that these people are parasites on society, and that the Law is written to make them indisepensible in almost every circumstance. Why? Why cannot the Law be written in such a way that ordinary people can understand it without having to spend several years learning the language? It's something for which I can only see one explanation, it's a fix.

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Okiemoon's avatar

Very well done!

“the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom”. I used to think this was a fear of punishment from God. One of Jordan Peterson’s lectures helped me to understand this better. Maybe rephrase it to this; “the respect of Universe is the beginning of wisdom”.

You live by the Law of Universe, you will have success. You live against the Law of Universe, disaster.

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