Law

 

“A system of rules created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior. A science and the art of justice. A binding custom or practice of a community; rules of conduct or actions that have been formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority.”

 

The letter of written laws by the specific limits to which they are crafted, define constraints that can serve both good and bad intentions. Laws, treaties, and other binding agreements are written and accepted by people that presumably possess the proper professional qualifications, including prudent judgment, balanced temperament, and honorable intent. Practitioners of law, which includes all law enforcement agencies, attorneys, jurors, and justices of the court, are bond by the very definition of written legal documents, and obligated to follow their intended design to the letter.

 

At times, laws are crafted, predicated, and implemented by authors supporting small group biases with the design to control, direct, or block a specific action against individuals, agencies, or a local, state, or country’s government. It follows, unfortunately the fallibility of our species renders too many laws counterproductive to the advancement of societies, rather they are designed to control behavior that favors the few at the expense of the many. 

 

The practice of crafting and writing laws, while a necessary prerequisite to establish and control a civil society, is subject to profound errors when designed to enrich self-serving interests of a select and limited audience. For example, when the letter of the law is crafted to protect corporate interests at the expense of environmental protections, Wall Street as a means of enriching the investments for the well-healed, or for the purpose of controlling the masses by restricting basic freedoms of life and liberty; then a law fails a true test for honorable intent.