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Since I was a small child I wondered why there is such great poverty in the world, while other lived in great luxury. As I grew into an adolescent and then an adult, the answer still dodged my mind.
Slowly and through great study and edification I was able to piece the answer to my question. I traveled the world and saw how some countries, although being neighbors, within the same geography and only divided by an imaginary line for a border the population of one country was extremely poor and the other very wealthy.
The answer to my question proved elusive for many years, yet I would get hints to the answer here and there. Then, about the age of twenty four years, the first major break through came. I figure out that the reason that some societies were very wealthy and other very poor stemmed from their Judicial System. Yes, the pillar that supported the great wealth of a rich nation was a fair and just Judicial System.
Although this was a major break through, it was not the complete answer; there was something more, something more fundamental than just the wealthy nation’s way of dispensing justice as the answer. Again, I headed to search for the rest of the answer to the puzzle.
Within a few years and with concentrated effort came the final break through. The foundation of the pillar that supported the wealth of rich nations was the basic and fundamental belief of its people.
What is that basic and fundamental belief, you ask?
Well, the basic and fundamental belief is this: All beings are created with the equal and inalienable right to exist, but not all are created with the same abilities.
Being that the basic and fundamental belief; how does a fair and just Judicial System becomes the pillar supporting a rich nation’s great wealth?
Simple, by resolving disputes and controversies in a fair and just way, peace can be maintained. The expectation that disputes and controversies will be resolved in a fair and just way leads to certainty, and certainty allows you to plan in a long term basis. By planning in long term basis, you can invest and by investing you can be reasonably certain you can make a profit.
But let us go back a bit to the basic and fundamental belief or principle: All beings are created with the equal and inalienable right to exist, but not all are created with the same abilities.
What does it mean in practical effect? Well, think about this: If you and somebody else have a controversy or dispute, both of you know that you have the same and equal right to exist but not of equal abilities. He or she can’t demean your existence but he or she may be smarter or dumber than you. So the key to solve your controversy or dispute in a fair and just manner is for a third party to review the facts and governing laws in an objective and impartial way. Then, that third party can render judgment in a fair and just manner. So, in effect it becomes crucial for you to know that justice will be served by holding you responsible and accountable to your word. So be careful to what you agree to do or not to do, this is where the Golden Rule comes in for guidance: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you: Do not do to others as you would not have them do unto you. But I will leave that for another post.
Well, that’s it. The reason America is so wealthy is that for most of its existence it has being governed by and its people adherence to the Rule of Law.
-Sapiens
Slowly and through great study and edification I was able to piece the answer to my question. I traveled the world and saw how some countries, although being neighbors, within the same geography and only divided by an imaginary line for a border the population of one country was extremely poor and the other very wealthy.
The answer to my question proved elusive for many years, yet I would get hints to the answer here and there. Then, about the age of twenty four years, the first major break through came. I figure out that the reason that some societies were very wealthy and other very poor stemmed from their Judicial System. Yes, the pillar that supported the great wealth of a rich nation was a fair and just Judicial System.
Although this was a major break through, it was not the complete answer; there was something more, something more fundamental than just the wealthy nation’s way of dispensing justice as the answer. Again, I headed to search for the rest of the answer to the puzzle.
Within a few years and with concentrated effort came the final break through. The foundation of the pillar that supported the wealth of rich nations was the basic and fundamental belief of its people.
What is that basic and fundamental belief, you ask?
Well, the basic and fundamental belief is this: All beings are created with the equal and inalienable right to exist, but not all are created with the same abilities.
Being that the basic and fundamental belief; how does a fair and just Judicial System becomes the pillar supporting a rich nation’s great wealth?
Simple, by resolving disputes and controversies in a fair and just way, peace can be maintained. The expectation that disputes and controversies will be resolved in a fair and just way leads to certainty, and certainty allows you to plan in a long term basis. By planning in long term basis, you can invest and by investing you can be reasonably certain you can make a profit.
But let us go back a bit to the basic and fundamental belief or principle: All beings are created with the equal and inalienable right to exist, but not all are created with the same abilities.
What does it mean in practical effect? Well, think about this: If you and somebody else have a controversy or dispute, both of you know that you have the same and equal right to exist but not of equal abilities. He or she can’t demean your existence but he or she may be smarter or dumber than you. So the key to solve your controversy or dispute in a fair and just manner is for a third party to review the facts and governing laws in an objective and impartial way. Then, that third party can render judgment in a fair and just manner. So, in effect it becomes crucial for you to know that justice will be served by holding you responsible and accountable to your word. So be careful to what you agree to do or not to do, this is where the Golden Rule comes in for guidance: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you: Do not do to others as you would not have them do unto you. But I will leave that for another post.
Well, that’s it. The reason America is so wealthy is that for most of its existence it has being governed by and its people adherence to the Rule of Law.
-Sapiens
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