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Thank you for your time and effort. To me there is duty, call it a calling, call it a form of work done by a complex brain with a built-in power of law called human conscience, and a huge part of that duty (again to me) is to communicate with other complex life forms in the effort to improve, adapt, survive, and pass on those improvements, pass on those capacities to adapt, to posterity.
If I thought, even for a minute, that no one would ever lend me their brains, in a discussion on vital topics, why would I expend the effort to communicate? A single viewpoint can be compared relatively to many competitive viewpoints, finding where they agree, finding where they disagree, and eventually a more accurate viewpoint is possible for those willing to expend that effort.
Now I contemplate the audacity of the idea of exchanging viewpoints while constrained to the customary measure of a sound bite.
Duty drove by moral conscience, an internal power:
“Mankind was on this planet before any government existed.”
If mankind was built with a complex brain but without the internal government known as moral conscience, then each individual would be out to cut each other’s throat before they suffer the routine throat-cutting themselves. Trial by jury, or the law of the land, was trial by the country, and the process nurtured instead of starving moral conscience.
“The morphing transmutation of the perceived need for group protection against saber-toothed tigers and other natural threats to human life created without design the "Tribe". Tribes congregating in regions created ultimately governments.”
If the true government power did not exist from the beginning there would be no tribe, and there would be nothing to counterfeit, all individuals, including mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, would be at each other’s throats, fathers raping mothers, mothers eating babies, brothers raping sisters, and more baby eating. The true government is an idea that works to help those individuals whose brains lack internal government, to help them see that cutting someone’s throat is going to earn the individual a greater injury than the injury they contemplate upon another. But even those offers of perspective can be misunderstood and turned into a counterfeit copy. I am not speaking about punishment -throat-cutting - set in motion by sociopaths who take-over the collective moral conscience of the tribe, turning the tribe into organized crime under, or not under, the color of law.
I’ll end the sound bite with a hint from the past, and this was written down, but natural law and agreeable man-made law (voluntary mutual defense) had to exist before writing was a thing, these man-made agreements had to exist in times and places sufficient to afford mankind the powers needed to survive well enough to want to survive.
"8 Hear, my son, your father's instruction And do not forsake your mother's teaching ; 9 Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head And ornaments about your neck. 10 My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. 11 If they say, "Come with us, Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause ; 12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who go down to the pit ; 13 We will find all kinds of precious wealth, We will fill our houses with spoil ; 14 Throw in your lot with us, We shall all have one purse," 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your feet from their path, 16 For their feet run to evil And they hasten to shed blood. 17 Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net In the sight of any bird ; 18 But they lie in wait for their own blood ; They ambush their own lives. 19 So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence ; It takes away the life of its possessors." Proverbs 1