Some Laws You Can't Change

Laws exist for one reason. They work.

Take the law of gravity, for example. It works equally well on a marble or a kitchen stove. It is impartial and has no conscience. Put a kitchen stove in your living room, for example, and gravity will keep it there. It doesn't care why you put the stove in the living room and not in the kitchen. It's doing what it's supposed to be doing and it assumes that you know what you're doing, too.

Other physical laws are also pretty non-judgmental. Take electricity. You can plug your toaster into a wall socket and electricity will make toast for you. You can put your finger into the same wall socket and electricity will make toast of you.

Other kinds of laws -- moral codes, ethical concepts of right and wrong, justice and compassion, principles of character -- work much the same way.

How you work with those laws is your choice. What you get from using or abusing those laws is also up to you.

The fact that we don't agree with something doesn't change it.

The Law of Cause and Effect doesn't care what we think.


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