Physics and its progeny: the-authority

 

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.

Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows:  "The good People of these" united states facilitate and encourage five civic disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, "in order to” develop responsible human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.”I want to improve my interpretation by listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.

Selected theme from this week

Physics and its progeny: the-authority

When individual human-beings developed sufficient awareness to appreciate the necessity to constrain chaos in their way of living, most chose to attempt to consign responsible-human-independence (RHI) to a higher power; in other words, to be dependent.

However, neither the-God, nor a government, nor an ideology will usurp the individual’s opportunity to develop the humble-integrity required for RHI.

These principles and how to enact them are explored in this week’s essays.    

Quora

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-difference-between-the-kinds-of-authority? by Janeduard Santos

You ask a controversial question, I think worthy of research and response.

I think each human-being has the authority to develop humble-integrity to the-ineluctable-truth; to think “I don’t know” when that is so.

Searching on “lists of authority” I found 13 political ones at https://www.marketing91.com/types-of-authority/; perhaps 140 titles at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_positions_of_authority with link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_titles with link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Positions_of_authority; a U.S. legal-authority example at https://library.famu.edu/c.php?g=276173&p=1842542; opinion on 30 human rights at https://opseu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/30_basic_human_rights_list_english.pdf and at https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights; opinion about civic authority at https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/individual-rights-and-community-responsibilities; and I expect progressive bias at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_United_States.

Of course, there’s much more political and social philosophy, but I want to turn to my opinion and respond to your question. So far, most scholarship about political power misses the authority which the entity female&male-human-kind works to discover, comprehend, and responsibly employ: physics and its progeny, including biology and psychology. For example, the civic-citizen does not lie, observing that liars invite woe as the laws of physics play out. Theists know better than to claim the earth is the center of the universe.

The female who pursues efficiency within her gender-constraints has encouragement and facilitation from her ancestors to at least do the following: 1) attend to her physical and psychological wellbeing, in order to care for perhaps 400 viable ova she may expect during her fertile years, 2) develop confidence only in authentic female&male-human-beings who appreciate her as the origin of a family (which needs reliability for family-lifetimes unto grandchildren and beyond), and 3) become psychologically intimate only with her mate: that male who shares her intentions to constrain chaos in their family’s way of living.

No political authority has the prerogative to deny the spousal bond, yet female&male-human-kind codifies the spousal-union, in order to assure constraint of chaos to progeny’s lives. That is to say, not every female&male-human-being is reliable, so humankind constrains dissenters, in order to accept corporate responsibility for human-independence to children.

The fact that some fellow-citizens do-not-perceive self-interest to neither initiate nor tolerate injury to or from the responsible-human-independence of every female&male-human-being empowers politics that bemuses most people, who, erroneously, just want to live their lives.

Deep thinkers constructed political philosophies that persuade many female&male-human-beings to avoid individual authority by seeking a higher power: an ideology, the-God (a mystery I assert is solved by physics and admit I may be wrong), a doctrinal-God, the government, or in many western countries, such as England and the U.S., the partnership of church and state. The individual who tolerates this tyranny is without excuse.

The proposal that female&male-human-being constrain chaos on earth was proffered by a Sumerian political philosopher perhaps 4,500 years ago (probably responding to earlier debate to-be-discovered). Constructs by which deep-thinkers persuaded fellow-citizens to empower the thinkers as representatives of the-God of necessity exponentially developed and reached political-crisis on the USA founders’ decision to declare war for independence. More than ever before in history, the oppressed and the oppressor substantially held a relatively-common Trinity to be the-God. It did not seem feasible to develop the war propaganda, “Our-God will beat your-God” when both parties worshipped the Trinity.

The 1763 decision by King George to tax loyal English subjects in the 13 Eastern-seaboard colonies to pay English debts from war with the French created a crisis. By 1774, the colonies had formed a confederacy, and in 1776, the founders declared war for independence, separating the-God of mystery and the-God of military power. Without lessening the Trinity, the founders cited “Nature and Nature’s God” for authority to female&male-human-being. They appealed to military-might for reliability to “the good People” under “the Supreme Judge of the world” and in 1778 negotiated military-providence from France. In 1781, at Yorktown, VA, Cornwallis surrendered to France and the Confederation of 13 colonies. Nothing in the declaration and execution of the USA-war for independence lessened the necessary responsible-human-independence expressed by the Sumerian philosopher.

Considering the literature on which the French and English wars were conducted, we may focus on scholarly interpretation of the canonized bibles. One article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon, covers Jewish, Christian and other traditions. Coverage expands in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches and suggests that some of the African slaves sold there, transported to America, and the U.S. appreciated as female&male-human-being, were believers-in the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church. Also, Islam is overlooked as a Bible offshoot; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_view_of_the_Bible. Thus, the notion that European Catholic vs Protestant wars was the basis for excluding Nova Scotia as the fourteenth English colony and including Catholics with the Tolerance Act in Maryland is oversimplification of humankind's chaos.

The importance of religious politics is comprehension of “The Prince”, Chapter XI Machiavellianism. In irony, it asserts that the-church-state-partnership picks the people’s pockets with immunity. Clergy and politicians live a high-life and the people neither rebel nor emigrate, inculcating in their children the faith that their-God will eventually relieve them of the misery and loss. Lockean political philosophy springs from this principle with propaganda like “consent of the governed”, “liberty” and “freedom”, and “the common good”: under the Trinity. English politics deserves deeper comprehension when the oppressed colonies win independence as 13 global states and contemplate independent laws to form a union stronger than the 13-year-old confederation.

The framers of the amendable U.S. Constitution specified a federal-republic with publically-disciplined-citizens holding fellow-citizens in both elected and appointed office to their state constitution and to the Union. Mostly for convenience but for some delegates, dissidence, only 39 of 55 framers signed the 1787 Constitution. Some framers and subsequent politicians planned to reinstate Anglo-American, Chapter XI Machiavellianism. Their intentions, begun under 11 states on March 4, 1789, were codified in the theism-Congress partnership stipulated under 14 states in the 1791 First Amendment.

Only one word in the 1787 Constitution confounds the humble-integrity expressed in the 1776 Declaration. The preamble claims the purpose of U.S. law is “Liberty” to “ourselves and our Posterity”. However, liberty seems license granted by the victor in war (or denied by the oppressor) and is thus insufficient to responsible-human-independence. Furthermore, liberty is too often taken as license to kill fellow-citizens, or in the case of Red-Coats in the colonies, arbitrarily killing fellow-subjects. The colonists took full responsibility for killing Red-Coats.

Individual discipline is suggested by the Sumerian and affirmed by the 1776 Declaration. With revision from license to discipline, I view the preamble as a proffered proposition for independence: We the People of the United States encourage and facilitate five public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” develop responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. There are no standards, implying that the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity” will ultimately discover statutory-justice according to necessity.

Returning to your question, it seems to me the-authority is physics and its progeny. Humankind works to comport to the-authority. The individual who appreciates the-authority constrains chaos in their way of living and accepts responsibility to aid justice to constrain dissidents who create chaos. Fellow-citizens who offer to serve in elected or appointed political office do so to improve statutory justice, in order to constrain chaos. Religion is an adult, chosen hope-against-mysteries, and most believers reserve sufficient humble-integrity. The continuum “ourselves and our Posterity” conserves responsible-human-independence, in order to approach the-ineluctable-truth. (There is no U.S. conservation of erroneous-English-tradition or Anglo-American Machiavellianism.)

I hope this essay helps.

FB add on: Considering the-authority, which humankind works to appreciate: physics and its progeny.

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-West-fight-collectivism-with-individualism-and-not-humanism? by Yuriy Chernyavskyy

Google tells me “The United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, and South Africa have been identified as highly individualistic cultures. The term individualistic culture was founded by Geert Hofstede in 1980.”

I barely hope to understand the U.S., and my articulations are atypical.

U.S. intentions seem expressed by the combination of the founders’ 1776 declaration of war for USA independence from England and the framers’ constitution to proffer U.S. domestic order. Due to each inconveniences and dissidences, only 39 of the 55 framers for 12 of 13 states were signers on September 17, 1787.

I assert that U.S. intentions include separation of church and state, five public disciplines (integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity), and responsible-human-independence (RHI) to the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity”. No standards are proffered, perhaps suggesting that posterity is to ultimately approach statutory justice.

These principles seem based on the necessity that female&male-human-being constrain chaos in their way of living and thereby encourage and facilitate a culture of RHI. RHI can only be developed with humble-integrity to the-ineluctable-evidence. The individual must have the opportunity to develop humble-integrity and therefore cannot be constrained by law, religion, ideology, or fellow-citizens. With every fellow-citizen at their chronological and psychological point in their journey to humble-integrity, the collective inhabitants will constitute a culture or RHI, wherein dissidents are constrained to reform yet remain fellow-citizens.

I think such a culture is possible, because the founders and framers proffered it in the US, and we, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” can effect it. If not, perhaps your nation will.

In summary, individualism is necessary for development of humble-integrity, which the human-being needs, in order to develop responsible-human-independence.

 

https://www.quora.com/Can-social-justice-and-wokeness-be-considered-a-new-form-of-collectivism-If-so-is-it-understandable-as-to-why-some-people-are-strongly-against-it? by Adam Osman

Maybe so.

Google tells us “social justice” means “justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society”, that “collectivism” means “the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it, and Wikipedia says “wokeness” means “awareness of issues that concern social justice and racial justice”.

These phrases do not seem to encourage and facilitate statutory justice. Collectivist justice invokes mob license, and racial justice divides humankind.

Experiences and observations make it plain to the individual that female&male-human-being is the only living species with the awareness and grammar by which to develop peace on earth. It is necessary for the individual to constrain chaos during their lifetime, in order to behave responsibly.

The human-being who is woke to the necessity for peace accepts the responsible-human-independence to aid the development of statutory justice; to constrain individuals who behave to increase chaos. Behaving so as to favor a race increases chaos and divides humankind.

Even in the utopia of peace on earth, both the individual and all of humankind are essential: if either one causes chaos, peace is ruined.

The importance of female&male-human-being addresses the fact that the typical woman may generate nearly 400 viable ova during her fertile years. She has the inalienable responsibility to protect her ova from chaos. The authentic male knows a woman represents a potential crowd, and would not impose chaos on her or her ova. Her mate commits to support her and her ova for life without infidelity.

These principles have been known and neglected for 4,500 years. The societies that neglect them may perceive personal culpability in the chaos that is diverging in the U.S.

One point seems clear: “liberty”, bestowed by the victor in war, is too often taken as license to destroy property, injure neighbors, and kill fellow-citizens. It is time for reform. For example, revise the name of the statue in New York Harbor to “Statue of Independence” and its ground “Independence Island”, with gratitude to the French for their military providence at Yorktown, VA in September, 1781: the USA won independence from England.

FB add on: It seems past time to rename the statue in New York Harbor “The Statue of Independence”: liberty is too often taken as license to kill, and England did not license U.S. independence.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-ignorance-is-like-cancer-eating-away-at-our-values-and-in-many-cases-kindness-Have-you-witnessed-ignorance-at-play? by Deon Christie

Yes.

Mr. Christie, I think you make an interesting link from ignorance to unkindness rather than independence.

In my view, an individual human-being’s duty to fellow-citizens is to develop responsible-human-independence (RHI). Taking your view, accepting RHI for the-good is an act of kindness. I agree. Also, RHI is in the individual’s self-interest, unless ignorance or gullibility prevails and they pursue dependency.

Under ignorance, a person may develop dependency rather than RHI. They may game the welfare system, commit crime, aid tyranny, etc., not accepting that they risk constraint under law-enforcement. Under gullibility, they may subject themselves to someone else’s vision for them rather than responsibly pursuing the happiness they perceive during their life’s journey.

The worst offenders may be unaware of the option to develop themselves as a human-being rather than as one of the opposites---animal, plant, or mineral; that the human-being may develop the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to discipline themselves for the-good or for the-bad; that they may choose to pursue either RHI or infidelity-to self; that RHI requires humble-integrity toward the-ineluctable-truth; and that being tethered to the-ineluctable-truth requires a lifetime of attention to the-ineluctable-evidence.

The newborn human-being is totally ignorant, and, unfortunately, most cultures conserve ignorance. For example, most cultures inculcate seeking-a-higher authority during each lifetime; to “keep the faith” or an ideology rather than accept and develop HIPEA for humble-integrity. Consequently, unhappily, RHI in self-interest to develop the-good is unusual. Limiting appreciation and awe, most people live&die never realizing the sun doesn’t “come up tomorrow”: the earth’s rotation on its axis unhides the sun each morning (at 1,000-mph earth-surface-speed).

In summary, I agree with you. Further, an achievable-better-future awaits the culture that encourages and facilitates the humble-integrity required for responsible-human-independence: kindness is a self-interest and begins within the individual human-being.

I noted your contribution to my understanding on my “appreciations” post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

I read and write to learn so appreciate comments.

FB add on: Encouraging and facilitating sufficient humility toward the-God, whatever-it-may-be, seems prudent self-interest, whether the person maintains hope-in a personal-God or not.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-true-integrity-and-does-anyone-truly-possess-it? by Bryan Whitson

It’s a research practice I call humble-integrity. I avoid the label “scientific process”, which too often is pseudo-research.

I think there are two key features: the researcher 1) conserves the posture “I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth” as long as that is so and 2) never attempts to impose on the-ineluctable-evidence. The consequence of the research is either discovery or conservation of imagination.

The elements of the process include the following: imagine the discovery of something unknown and regard it as a theory; do the work to comprehend that the theory seems worthy of research rather than is a mirage; list the theory-supporting evidences and select the dominant variables with emphasis on ones that conform to related, ineluctable-discoveries; design a reliable experiment to confirm the theory; conduct the experiment and evaluate the results; if a discovery seems proven, repeat the experiment for confirmation; if not, consider a new experiment with improvements learned in the research; continue the process until you conclude that the-ineluctable-evidence either confirms discovery or does not support further research; conserve the results for re-examination upon the invention of new instruments to perceive the-ineluctable-evidence, that could either modify the discovery or justify new research on the unconfirmed theory.

The inevitability of new inventions modifying discovery until the-ineluctable-truth is reliably perceived gives some researchers invitation for unreliable work. For example, a researcher may be so certain of their theory that they modify the-ineluctable-evidence, in order to confirm their paradigm. Such hubris toward humble-integrity invites woe.

It seems even Albert Einstein denied his own mathematical genius. When his model proved that the universe is dynamic rather than static, as he perceived, he introduced a “cosmological factor” to force the mathematics to the static paradigm. Ten years later, Edwin Hubble proved that the universe is expanding, and Einstein thanked Hubble for correcting “my greatest blunder”.

I modify a famous Einstein syntax to:  Research without integrity is ruinous; integrity without research is ineffectual.

Many people take pride in personal-integrity. A few gauge it on humble-integrity to the-ineluctable-evidence. For example, humble people never lie, expecting physics and its progeny will eventually deliver liar-invited loss and misery. (I learned this maxim from Einstein’s writing about “science” and “ethics”.)

FB add on:  Integrity is the personal and corporate research-practice that approaches the-ineluctable-truth.

https://www.quora.com/Are-you-better-than-what-you-seem-to-be? by Steven Chen

I behave with intention and leave judgement of my unique journey (toward perfection) to others.

Beginning our sixth decade of marriage, with three children, my wife opens her eyes to my voice and puckers so we can kiss again. As long as that is so, I feel confident that I will perfect my person before I die, low as some judgements may be.

I am married to the most serenely-confident woman I ever knew and accept her potential to err.

FB add on: In self-interest, I expect judgement beyond Phil Beaver.

https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-agree-to-disagree-and-the-right-to-have-your-own-opinion? by Paul Lucy Savage

I think the people who’ve tolerated “I agree to disagree” for so long decided not to tolerate that civil response. Some of the no-longer-tolerant fellow-citizens are reacting poorly, taking liberty as license---not an unusual practice.

I am intolerant of tolerance toward me. When I withdrew from the Baptist brotherhood (that’s not as clearly possible as it may seem), some former friends commented, “Here, it’s mother, God, and country: if you don’t like it, leave” as though my citizenship was something on which they could agree or disagree, based on their religious opinion. I asked one man if I was still his neighbor. I accepted his confused-arrogance and haven’t spoken since.

Those times in the USA are forever gone, and the people who formerly felt tolerant suddenly feel alienated by their own, long tolerated political-correctness, whether they can articulate the hubris or not.

We, the 2021 continuum from 1787’s “ourselves and our Posterity” can begin to retire 1791 Anglo-American tyranny by amending (hopefully before 2022 ushers in) the First Amendment, in order encourage and facilitate U.S. civic integrity more than civil religion.

I hope you do your part to effect reform toward U.S. responsible-human-independence rather than “bestowed” liberty.

FB add on: “I agree to disagree” seems terminal to necessary human-connection.

https://www.quora.com/Do-moral-truths-exist? by Sebastian Vasquez

I think so.

I call each of them “the-ineluctable-truth” to try to be specific. The reader who deletes the hyphens weakens the meaning.

The person who accepts that they are a human-being has the potential individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to develop humble-integrity toward the-ineluctable-truth. For example, while its OK to hope in a personal-God it seems prudent to reserve sufficient humility toward the-God, whatever it may be.

The person who attempts to avoid humble-integrity has not accepted HIPEA and may not have accepted being a human-being, the only living species with IPEA.

I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth so can only express my opinion.

https://www.quora.com/What-do-people-understand-by-a-civilized-country-or-a-civilized-society? by Verísimo Vizoso Feijoo

Merriam-Webster online gives several usages, the first relating to relative “cultural and technological development”. Others relate to era and location characteristics. Looking at other dictionaries further muddies understanding. I accept “civil” to refer to accepted standard of public behavior in a time and place.

I find “civility” a relative term. Working to discover&share then listen-to-improve words and phrases that impact the experiences and observations of most living human-beings, I employ “civic” and apply it to human connections more than to municipal regulations. Thus, the civic-citizen behaves to develop statutory justice.

Statutory justice is written law enforcement based on the-ineluctable-evidence rather than legal precedent. My comprehension is limited, and I trust-in and commit-to the-ineluctable-truth.

I think the-ineluctable-evidence comports to physics and its progeny such as biology and psychology. Perhaps the source of physics is potential energy, and conversion of potential energy into mass and kinetic energy conforms to a law, Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which is fundamental to all laws. Thus, physics and integrity comport to the same laws. Furthermore, the-ineluctable-facts exist and humankind works to discover both the facts and how to responsibly benefit from them. A civic-person never lies, assured that lying invites loss and misery that physics is certain to deliver.

I ventured beyond my qualifications in physics and its progeny to make this point: there is a civilization that transcends the developed civilizations, and therein humankind works independently to constrain chaos on earth. So far, only a small fraction of humankind accepts responsible-human-independence (RHI), in order to constrain chaos in their-way of living rather than accept infidelity to their-self. This is so, because no culture on earth encourages and facilitates the humble-integrity that is necessary to develop RHI in a lifetime.

Happily, one such culture was proffered on September 17, 1787, in the amendable U.S. Constitution. We, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 must effect a few changes, preferably before 2022 ushers in.

First, the preamble to the Constitution is abstract to living citizens. It proposes 5 public disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity. Unfortunately, its purpose is liberty, civil license, rather than RHI, civic self-interest. Notice that the disciplines do not include religion, a metaphysical mystery of personal rather than civic or civil interest.

Second, the First Amendment must be reformed to encourage and facilitate civic integrity rather than civil religion.

Third, the entity We the People of the United States must make it plain to fellow-citizens who serve on the U.S. Supreme Court that they must collaborate with “ourselves and our Posterity” to discover and adopt statutory justice rather than conserve erroneous laws by precedent:  Anglo-American law is void if it does not comport to the intentions of the combination of the 1776 Declaration affirmed by the 1787 Constitution, especially the separation of church and state.

Feijoo, I’m sure you did not expect such an essay. I hope it interested you. If so, you can follow origins and development of these principles at cipbr.blogspot.com, published weekly.

I read, write, speak, and listen to learn, so please comment.

FB add on: “Civil”, “civilization”, and “civility” seem relative to time, place, and quality. Happily, if applied to the global continuum “ourselves and our Posterity” they can represent civic-connections among human-beings.

https://geniuslevel.quora.com/Presumption-is-a-form-of-prejudice-so-can-assumption-also-be-considered-prejudice-29? by Bill Smith

I think so; absolutely.

Bill Smith: Please, expand on that answer!

Phil Beaver: For example, after 4 decades’ attempt to be what Mom and Dad wanted for me, one of their competitive Southern Baptist believers, thanks to my Catholic wife and my independence, I dropped out of Christianity.

When a Christian learns this, they don’t hesitate to take pity on my soul and say so. They also adopt a prejudice against my U.S. citizenship. Some say, “Here, it’s mother, God, and country. If you don’t like it, get out.”

If I feel like it, I ask, “Are you certain about the-God?” Some seem to hear the hyphen, but most deflect the question with a statement like, “I’ll pray for you.” If so, I respond, “And I’ll pray for you.”

No one has ever continued to the hard question, “Are you certain you retain sufficient humility to the-God?” Consequently, I share the question on forums like quora.com.

I’m prejudiced to the idea that we humans work to discover how to benefit from physics and its progeny, such as biology and psychology and that it’s OK to either consider physics the-God and potential energy its source or to hope for metaphysical favor, either way, perfecting your unique person.

 

https://www.quora.com/Will-you-sign-my-petition? http://chng.it/hDQvtfSm by Terri Anderson

No: security-surveillance is known to reduce chaos, and that is humankind’s necessary work on earth.

Terri Anderson:  Whatever there are tons of other people who will sign it so it doesnt bother me

Phil Beaver:  Did you assert that you and others work to increase chaos on earth?

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-reasons-why-the-rights-of-a-citizen-can-be-limited? by Thomas Gbertey

As the most aware and communicative species on earth, female&male-human-being is independently responsible to constrain chaos on earth. Persons who accept this responsibility are civic citizens---neither initiating nor tolerating harm/injury to or from any person or institution. “Civic” here refers to integrity among fellow-citizens more than municipal conformity.

Civilization is constrained to assure each human-being the opportunity to develop the humble-integrity required for responsible-human-independence.

Unfortunately, some persons perceive advantage in some form of dependency---gaming empathy, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse. Consequently, civic-citizens must develop statutory justice by which to constrain dependent persons.

Unfortunately, no culture encourages and facilitates the development of humble-integrity. I think, so far, most western legislators and judges promote “the rule of law”---expansion of legal precedent---by which they distract human-beings from accepting the responsibility to constrain chaos in their ways of living.

A culture of humble-integrity, with standards to be discovered by the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity” was proffered on September 17, 1787. However, so far, the majority of the entity We the People of the United States has not perceived the self-interest of civic integrity, and they tolerate infidelity to the recorded U.S. intentions: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

FB add on: The chaos now diverging in the U.S. can motivate the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” to reform Anglo-American pride in “the rule of law”. Legislators and judges distract citizens from responsible-human-independence; thereby, the individual constrains chaos rather than tolerating infidelity in their way of living.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-inequality-in-itself-is-not-unethical-in-most-situations? by Andrew Martin

I don’t think equality is an ethical proposal in any situation but one: civilization owes each person equal opportunity to develop the humble-integrity needed for responsible-human-independence.

Each person is unique, and some think dependency pays. Civilization owes dependents, such as criminals, notice that reform is required.

https://www.quora.com/Can-justice-demand-that-we-equalize-anything? by Jaime Lopez

I think so.

Both justice and necessity demand every human-being to constrain chaos rather than tolerate infidelity in their way of living. But not every person accepts being a human-being.

Fortunately, the human-being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop the humble-integrity that is needed for responsible-human-independence. Thereby, they can responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive rather than submit to the vision someone else has for them.

As in all physics and its progeny, such as biology and psychology, some individuals never perceive that they are human-beings, can develop HIPEA, and can choose humble-integrity. Some persons think crime, tyranny, evil, and worse dependence on civic-people pay.

So far, no culture has encouraged and facilitated public development of responsible-human-independence. However, such a culture is proposed in one documentary combination: the founders’ 1776 USA declaration of war against English law and the framers’ 1787 U.S. law, amendable by the continuum We the People of the United States.

We, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 must amend the First Amendment so as to encourage and facilitate civic integrity rather than civil religion and amend the preamble to promote the benefits of responsible-human-independence (self-interest) rather than liberty (license).

Mr. Lopez, I recorded author and date in “Appreciations” on promotethepreamble.blogspot.com. Thank you.

FB add on: We, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” must amend the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, in order to facilitate responsible-human-independence (self-interest) rather than liberty (license).

https://www.quora.com/Is-a-person-a-free-being? by Ila Bautista

I don’t think so.

The human-being, under physics and its progeny, including biology and psychology, of necessity must constrain chaos in their way of living. For example, if local authorities order evacuation because a Category 5 Hurricane is predicted, the prudent person has a plan for escape that does not pose more threat than the coming storm. On the psychological side, a prudent person never lies, in order to lessen human misery and loss.

The necessity of responsible-human-independence was suggested by a Sumerian political philosopher some 4,500 years ago, and is reported in Genesis 1:27-28, in a 2021 interpretation, female&male-human-being is independently responsible to constrain chaos on earth. Accepting this responsibility is a prudent choice, in my opinion. It follows accepting self as a human-being rather than one of its opposites.

“The rule of law” as introduced by the British after the “Glorious Revolution” is tyranny against development of humble-integrity and its use to develop responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”, quoting the U.S. Constitution.

FB add on:  The rule of law developed by legal precedent and tradition does not facilitate the responsible-human-independence living people need and “our Posterity” intends.

https://www.quora.com/Aren-t-equality-of-opportunity-and-equality-of-outcome-interdependent? by Jeff Kazanjian

I think so.

However, I think the only equality of opportunity is provided by a culture of humble-integrity, which seems non-existent.

Such a culture encourages and facilitates the following acceptances:

Each newborn to accept that they are a human-being.

Female&male-human-being accepts the charge to constrain chaos in their way of living; to provide peace on earth.

The human individual has the individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop humble-integrity rather than tolerate infidelity to self.

Individual human-beings responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive rather than submit to the image someone else has for them, always reserving sufficient humility toward the-God, whatever-it-may-be.

Shockingly, the 1776 declaration of war against England together with the 1787 U.S. Constitution proffer such a culture. It is repressed by the religion clauses of the First Amendment (1791). We, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” can be amend it to encourage and facilitate humble-integrity rather than religious opinion.

FB add on: Human-beings need only one assurance (see Merriam-Webster): the opportunity to develop the humble-integrity that is necessary for responsible-human-independence. Accepting the opportunity is optional.

https://www.quora.com/What-structures-or-values-present-in-the-culture-prevent-us-from-recognizing-the-dignity-and-worth-of-others-in-our-society? by Mark Santos

I don’t think I’ve ever had the privilege to address such a profound question. If there are no objections I add your name to my “Appreciations” post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

In response:  I speculate that the conception that some human-beings could be atheists empowers some individuals to depreciate fellow-citizens on earth. I doubt a human being can make such a judgement, even of self:  No one knows what the-God is.

Let me explain.

 

First, early parts of the Hebrew Bible parallel ideas from Sumerian mythology; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_religion#Parallels. Artifacts from 4,500 years ago depict, for example, priests presenting offerings to a God. Perhaps a Sumerian political philosopher’s suggestion is recorded in Genesis 1:27-28: “So God created humankind . . . in the image of God he created . . . male and female . . . God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over . . . every living creature . . . on the earth.”

 

Regardless of competing claims to the emergence of monotheism (Egypt 3400 years ago), a human’s judgement of the-God of Genesis 1:28 cannot impact the charge to female&male-human-being:  Independently constrain chaos on earth; provide peace. Of course, we don’t know that the-God assigned to humankind the responsibility for peace. Nevertheless, the fellow-citizen who accepts the assignment of responsible-human-independence need not ponder more than necessity in self-interest to resist civic infidelity to their person. For example, if a person is unfaithful to family-monogamy-for-life, they invite chaos, as Abraham experienced on having a son by Hagar and another by Sara. Physically in 2021, if a person is unfaithful to the threat of COVID19, they invite ruin.

 

However, theists who ponder Genesis 1:28’s politics do all they can to persuade fellow-citizens that their doctrine represents the-God of peace, civically terrible (unjust) as the-God may be. “Civics” here means justice in human-beings’ connections. In other words, theists use the-God to dissuade fellow-citizens from accepting responsibility to provide peace; to expect the-God to usurp the human responsibility. The consequence of theism is exponential increase in chaos on earth over the past 4500 years.

 

Religions divide human-beings. For example, the Apostle John, in John 15:18-23 (CJB) uses “hate” five times to develop the premise that the non-Christian hates the-God, whether the hate is to the Father, to the Son, or to disciples. Thus, the Christian theist who follows St. John’s accusation against Jesus’ civic reliability, regards non-believing fellow citizens as atheists. I am a non-believer in advocates of hate (I doubt Jesus advocates hate) and pity St. John’s premise and the Christians who belabor it.

 

However, perhaps 4 of 7 fellow-citizens on earth follow an Abrahamic religion in one of the competing churches, each one of which has many competing factions. I wonder if the Ethiopian Tewahedo doctrine expresses conformity with Genesis 1: that the-God’s image is female&male without reference to race or skin color. I hope so. Nevertheless, none of the churches seem to encourage and facilitate responsible-human-independence, in order to provide peace on earth.

 

In my experience with theists, anyone who does not profess the speaker’s personal God is an atheist to the speaker. I have never heard a theist express sufficient humility to the-God. I have not the faith to be an atheist. For all I know, the-God does not approve the speaker’s God. In fact, if the speaker tolerates chaos in their way of living, I’d say the-God of Genesis 1:28 disapproves.

 

In summary, I think the widespread failure of earthly fellow-citizens to accept responsible-human-independence to constrain chaos in their way of living---the hope that the-God will usurp their opportunity to acquire humble-integrity, prevents peace on earth. It does not have to remain that way.

 

A better view of literature such as Genesis 1:28 offers the world an achievable good future.

 

I think the USA’s 1776 declaration of war against England together with the 1787 U.S. Constitution comport to Genesis 1:28, and the First Amendment (1791) must be amended so as to encourage and facilitate civic humble-integrity rather than civil religious-opinion.

 

FB add on:  Unhappily, most cultures evolved such that civil members have the hubris to hate civic, non-believing fellow-citizens as atheists. There’s evidence that the-God disapproves.

 

Law professors

https://lawliberty.org/radicalized-political-ingratitude/

 

Professor Schaefer invites “Gratitude for the privileges that American citizenship bestows, and for those who made those privileges and their extension possible . . .” as though the U.S. chaos is not the product of errors politicians (power manipulators) made in the past.

As an old white man, husband with 1 woman for 51 years with three children, I am not pleased with some political decisions made after the humble integrity expressed in the intentions of war against England’s laws. Founders and framers successively expressed in the combination of war-declaration (1776) and U.S. law (1787) responsible-human-independence. Nor am I proud of the legislators and judges who made aggressive decisions. Especially egregious is their conservation of Anglo-American law, to this day. We can begin an achievable better future starting with three reforms.

 First, we, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” can revise the U.S. preamble, in order to encourage and facilitate individual citizens to develop the humble-integrity required for responsible-human-independence (a self-interest) rather than liberty (bestowed license). However, my proposal is improved, it must not lose the modifier “responsible” to the preamble’s object: “independence” to be discovered by “our Posterity”.

Second, we must amend the egregious First Amendment so as to encourage and facilitate the individual citizen’s pursuit of civic humble-integrity rather than civil religious opinion; egregious because the First Amendment defies the humble-integrity proffered by the aforementioned declaration plus constitution.

Third, we must reform the U.S. Supreme Court’s hubris that female&male-human-being must comport to legal precedent rather than physics and its progeny (including biology and psychology). For example, civic-citizens never lie, in order to avoid physics ultimately delivering invited loss and misery. The vaunted Anglo-American “rule of law” is an erroneous consequence of the English Bill of Rights, 1689.

I condone neither depreciation, injury, destruction, nor death. However, it is time for professors to dig deeper into the meaning of humble-integrity. By it, the human-being can gauge their personal integrity, no matter where they stand in their possible-quest for unique-perfection.

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https://lawliberty.org/fake-originalism-and-the-right-to-bear-arms/

Professor Lund’s analysis supports the glaring problem with originalism and precedent: legal dependence on obsolete England.

Any U.S. law that does not comport to the 1787 U.S. Constitution seems bogus. Amendments that do not comport to the 1787 U.S. Constitution need reform. For example, the First Amendment needs to encourage and facilitate humble-integrity rather than religious opinion.

First, the founders’ declaration of war against England was for independence rather than for liberty. Liberty is licensed by the state, whereas independence is necessary to the human-being’s development of humble-integrity to the-ineluctable-truth. In other words, at stake is civic necessity vs civil power.

The founders humbly separated church from state, claiming 1776 authority under “Nature and Nature’s God” without disparaging the English-reformed-Catholic Trinity and relying on “the Supreme Judge of the world” for victory. In 1778, the founders secured French military providence. “The good People” of the 13 English colonies won independence as 13 states, but could not function as a confederacy.

Second, the framers, delegated to create a stronger union, specified a federal republic under We the People of the United States, who can amend the Constitution for stated goals under standards to be discovered by “ourselves and our Posterity”. Fellow-citizens consider five disciplines I express as integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage and facilitate responsible-human-independence to “ourselves and our Posterity”. Since these principles or better are not promoted, chaos has ensued.

As long as the entity We the People of the United States tolerates a 1689 English precedent, the rule of law, rather than the 1787 U.S. intention, statutory justice under the-ineluctable-truth to be discovered by the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity”, chaos in the United States seems destined to diverge.

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.