Reply #42: Yes, but this is a broader problem. It's "My justice" vs "The Greater Justice". [View All]

  When "My justice" and "The Greater Justice" intersect, it's happy land. When "My Justice" conflicts with "The Greater Justice", people are more than willing (usually) to throw "The Greater Justice" out the window.

  I don't think there will ever be a time where the objective rule of law is venerated by more than a handfull (metaphorically speaking).

  The reason? Critical thinking is, to most, a mysterious and upsetting concept. It is not taught in school, or very lightly touched on. And frankly, ignorance or fear of concepts like critical thinking or empirical science have and will always benefit those who would enslave us through our ignorance.

  Which, to go off on a tangent, is why humanity itself is pretty much unchanged as a species. People have the same conflicts, false beliefs, etc., that they did 2,000, 3,000 years ago. Sure, the clothing and technology and sometimes religion changes, but the history of our species seems to unnervingly repeat because there are some higher concepts which just don't seem to catch on.

  If humanity survives that long, there will be a lawman on some gigantic glittering space station- who is still trying to prevent the lynching of the accused before trial.

And so it goes...

PB