[MD] Food for Thought

[LARAMIE LOEWEN]

>dmb says:
>Traditionally, cops and armies enforce social values. Intellect doesn't use 
>the same method. There are military police, layers of police and somebody is 
>watching the detectives, but an intellectually guided society is one in 
>which the agents of social control are guided. Law enforcement, the 
>politicians and the all that are restricted by principles. These principles, 
>such as we find in the constitution etc, restrict even what sort of laws can 
>be passed within a democracy. They guide the society by putting limits on 
>the agents of social authority. Maybe it seems like some kind of weird 
>miracle, but in this country, every day, somebody is arrested and jailed 
>without having their rights violated. I mean, intellectual principles are 
>what keep us from being unjustly imprisoned or getting tortured. Um, I mean, 
>they used to until recently.

A paragraph worth repeating.  

Cheers, 
Larz