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%LAW VS PEOPLE 780616
There is an essential tension between "law" and
"people" as: sources of authority, understanding, desire,
and power; origins of commitment, constraint,
responsibility, and content of expressions; guides for
process, decision, and action; definitions of needs,
propriety, reason, meaning, fulfillment, permission,
satisfaction, and sanity; bases for governmental goals and
means. Efforts to relax the tension by an exclusive
tendency to one pole are common, but are counter-
productive by occasioning the growth of counter-forces
which restore the tension.
In the tension "law" pertains to formal laws,
informal laws, traditions, adopted policies, taboos,
conventions, rituals, role models, life-styles, habits,
morality, ethics, institutions, diplomatic protocols, etc.
which originate outside a person and act to direct the
perceptions, interests, desires, decisions, and actions of
the person without regard for the unique character, body,
soul, spirit, and origin of the person.
In the tension "people" pertains to what is unique in
people and integral to that which is unique in people.
Some people tend to be dominated by "law". Other
people tend to be dominated by other "people". Some see
"law" as the solution to domination by "law". Exclusive
solutions thus tend to occasion each other, and generate
exclusive people who in their extremism cannot see the
value in the complimentary other, and so see no need for
compromise and synthesis; balance between the poles of the
essential tension.
The tension between "law" and "people" is a
perspective on the tension between "objectivity" and
"subjectivity", between the "Two Cultures" in their varied
manifestations. Mutual awareness and mutual understanding
will be promoted by the affirmation of the contributions
which people at each pole of the tension have to offer to
those at the other pole of the tension---in order that new
generations may incarnate a better balance between the
essential elements of real living in a community of
individuals creating meaning in their communities as they
help each other realize their unique potentials for love.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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