Law and Humanity
I recently wrote about the importance and the use of the Rule of Law. And I am still absolutely committed to the idea that the Rule of Law must be paramount. Not the rule of the strong. Not the rule of the rich. Not the rule of the "elite". The Rule of Law. And I also want to write about The Rule of Law and Humanity. I believe that Law and Humanity must not just co-exist. They must be intertwined. So often throughout our history the law did not have any Humanity in it. For example, in the United States Slavery was legal and people were property that their "masters" could do anything they wanted to. And helping slaves to escape, teaching them how to read, those were illegal. During Jim Crow time in the United States it was not legal, per say, to lynch Black People. Although it may as well have been. The people who were supposed to enforce the law were on the side of the lynchers. So it may as well have been legal. During the time of the Nazis in Germany it was legal...