Deep-Blue, nothing wrong with looking inwards, particularly if you really want to “see”.

I’m not sure that everything is a lie but it could be described as deceit, self deceit.

The problem has always been that we humans not only dislike what we see when we do look at ourselves, that self loathing becomes the motivation to “mitigate”. Most of societies’ “rules” are mitigation. It is not only religious rules that draw us away from the reality of who and what we are, although they do provide the best examples of shifting us away from reality. That shift from reality is where the problems start.

As I said in my first response, “each and every human endeavor, entity and institution created by humans is corrupt.” This is because it is the humans that corrupt it, we are the only common factor.

Just think of it this way, as with the example you quote of corruption in sport, every time a news item of human corruption hits the media we see precisely the same human reactions. Who did it? What rules did they break? How will we punish them? How do we prevent this happening again? (more rules), and finally the mitigation, the excuses, the reasons and the absolution. It is just madness.

So when you son asks the question “why should I follow the law?” this is not a question anyone else on the planet should answer, except him. I don’t know how old he is or how much parental influence you still hold, but basically, how he deals with it will be determined by the values he has adopted from his parents, social, economic and if any, religious conditioning. Like the rest of us, he is what he is.

Until and unless we humans can avoid being influenced by those things that distort reality, we cannot progress as a species. As discussed on OLO recently, those things include fear, uncertainty, doubt, dogma, paranoia, theology, ideology, fantasies, obsessions, pixies, fairies and aliens, just to mention a few.

Good luck BLUE.

The only answer to the question you could give is the most important and in fact the most obvious- Not complicated , but simple , once people understand;
The only law is the strong natural law of Moral and ethical laws – so endowed at birth and every persons gift to reason.
Any other law is what is called Political – That ought to be obvious – enter the subtracted equation of Altruism from the Political Law , gives you the answer.
The Systematic predation and confiscation of individual rights and property; for it to be a state of Mendicancy and State created social dysfunctionallity to justify itself.
The Political Means.

Just as there are only two ways to wealth –One is by Economic s and Freedom to trade – and the other is the Political Means ; Robbery – coercion- compulsion- so Remove Altruism , can you see the problem now?

Thats why they Lie , and the intention of lies is to deceive , by Con men.

Sorry All, but IMHO that was a right load of disconnected, confusing, mixed up, unmitigated, gobbledygook!

What did you do? Randomly select words from a thesaurus and see how many you could make sentences out of?

C’mon, you can explain yourself better than that, if you can’t, don’t go pu

Sorry All, that last word was “public”

If you wish to ask me what parts of it you do not understand Spindoc, be more specific; But I assume you understand nothing of it ; Says more about you ;- It is very simple to understand – simple and to the point; what does that say about you ?

Get off your own back side and do some studying yourself. It is not in little golden books Spindoc. You will need to read some harder books than that.
But if you are at least half serious, but questionably due to your rudeness , I doubt that you are. And I thought you at least had half a brain.
So on that note I would say Get stuffed. heheh
Anyone else I will help.

All, I am hearing (reading) you have a faith in a person’s own moral character and ability to reason.

Then you went on to say administrations of varying forms corrupt this character and create a population of beggars and then justify this by taking away self sacrifice from law.

I second Spindocs motion to declare it gobbledygook.