Laws and people
- Bill at 80-plus
- Nov 17, 2020
- 1 min read
Response to Jenni Sudduth's excellent comment: I am afraid that the paradox is unresolvable. Though we are more a government of laws than is North Korea or other dictatorships, we have a government of both laws and people. But degrees of difference matter. Degrees of difference are sometimes even worth dying for. Many brave women and men have. Thank heavens for them.
This is very true and we have seen this happen throughout the ages when enough people care enough about a certain belief. People are willing to lay down their lives in defense of an ideal that they feel ultimately strong about. What strikes me about the current state of our nation is that there are stark dividing lines between groups of people and there no longer seems to be bridges that will bring these sides together (and the reasons that this is exacerbated are a topic for another post entirely!). And what is the end result when this happens? I fear that the result is not only a morally or ideological division in our country, but a physical divisio…