Introduction: The Need for Rules
People need to believe in a “system.” Whether in regard to morals and the hereafter (organized religion), the management of our societies (government), or the search for our daily bread (economic systems), people want to believe in a stable set of rules. This belief in an overriding, chaos-vanquishing order is very comforting, so much so that it appears to be built into the human psyche and has been a prominent part of social life since the beginning of civilization 5,000 years ago. I will defer to the anthropologists and the sociologists, as well as the religious philosophers, as to why this is the case. The ...
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