This Wednesday, we will reflect on harmless liberty and regulated liberty. Under regulated liberty, we will treat Apostolic and government bodies that have regulated liberty. It is a fact one grants all harmless liberties performance, or one is violating the greater liberty. Allowing all harmless activities gives people the total dose of freedom, with the law serving to protect the people.
Absolute liberty or anything goes. Rulers allow everyone to do as they please. Sounds great until you recall what some people like to do. It is anarchy. It is the law of the jungle—survival of the fittest. The strong take what they want from the weak: life, property, and loved ones, all prey to the strongest to do with as they wish. Life is a game of mortal combat to survive at times.
The tyranny of rules is when rules get used to define what is and is not allowed. It is taking absolute liberty and carving out a body of acts approved by the governing body. Even deciding right and wrong gets conducted by law. The ruler judges what is good and what is terrible in regulated liberty. Whether monarch, committee or God, regulated liberty is some party deciding what is allowed and who will get punished. This category includes the Bible’s legal bodies and the Apostles' ban on some harmless acts. Even God may be unjust and not use harmless liberty as the perfect liberty to use to judge on Judgment Day.
It is a universal law one either grants the right to perform all harmless acts to one's ruled body or one is in violation of the greater harmless liberty. Harmless liberty is the total dose of liberty grantable while protecting the governed by law. A ruler allowing all harmless acts, including saying no to invitations to indulge in activities presented by others such as giving away one’s lunch, attending an orgy, or doing drugs, is harmless liberty. One is allowed to do as one please so long as it is harmless and consensual.
So, when they are not ignorant of the three choices, tyranny, anarchy, and harmless liberty are the choices of ruling bodies. Anyone can use the universal law to judge legal bodies. How does yours rate?
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