Just a Thought About What Laws Really Do

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." ~ Plato 

Good people are good, and will do good things, and if they chose to do bad things the laws will not stop them, because they had no choice. For example if a good persons child is starving, and they can not figure out any other way to feed the child short of stealing something. The good person may engage in an immoral act of theft, because letting their child starve would be even more immoral, but no law would ever stop them from doing so.

Bad people will ponder over ways around the laws, so that they can conduct the immoral actions without any punishment. They will figure out ways to steal and not be punished. This causes harm to good people, but the good people because laws prevent them are discouraged from doing anything about it. 

What laws end up doing then is protecting bad people, allowing them to do as they please to good people. Good people thinking that following the law is the most moral thing to do, do not seek justice for themselves. Laws therefore cause injustices to be committed, and no punishment to befall the one committing the injustice. 

However without laws the same good people will continue to do good things, and when a bad person preys upon them that person will be stopped and a reasonable punishment bestowed upon them. How do I know the punishment will be reasonable? They are good people, and no good person would want to bestow an unjust punishment on any other person. When some good person does a immoral thing, because they saw no other way, than a just punishment would also befall them. We have good people being punished for the slightest of indiscretions, and bad people who gave their actions a whole lot more thought getting away with their indiscretions.  

The Need For Money

Does anyone else remember being young, and thinking it was actually possible to create a money tree? How about the first $100 bill you got, it seemed like you could get anything you ever wanted to with it? The first job you ever got, and how rich you felt?

You may be wondering why I bring all these things up. It is because starting at a very young age, we are taught that money is what we need, money will get us everything we want, money is the end all be all of existence. If you have lots of money, you are successful, and worth more than those who have less money. If you have very little money, than you are lazy, you have failed, you are a bum. These things are programmed in us, starting very young. We are bribed with money by our parents. Get good grades, do your chores, and so on, and we will give you x amount of dollars.

We were lied to, it wasn't our parents that lied to us, and they were lied to too. Our government depends on people wanting money, if people don't want money, than this whole thing called government comes crashing down. What we need and want is food, shelter, entertainment, novelty items, and so on. No one really needs or wants money, they need and want the things money can buy.

What if I told you there were other ways to get those thing? That money is just one way to get what you need and want. You could chose to work for a farmer, and instead of being paid in money, you could get paid in a percentage of the crops. You could trade your labor with a landlord in exchange for rent. You could trade, and barter, and get wages in forms that are not money.

What is the point right, there is a point to everything, so why do I tell you what many already know, but just don't think about every day. The point is it is this worship for money that is instilled in us at a very young age that causes many of us to never feel satisfied. You can make more and more money, but no matter how much you make it seems you just find more things to spend it on. What if I told you, you don't need more money, you are fine, and you have enough? We must stop this worshiping of money that has become so prevalent in our society. It is destroying us. I am not advocating communism, I am not preaching a socialist construct, I am simply asking everyone to recognize that it is not money that nourishes you. We do not need to suckle off the Federal Reserve tit. We can even be capitalists, and still not need money. Money is a tool, it makes trading easier, but it is not something we need, it is not something to worship like many do.