A Peaceable Wisdom for Love

Positive emotions help us build enduring personal resources such as problem-solving skills, coordination and social resources. If individuals in their childhood have the opportunity to be better orientated as to be able to make good choices in respect of universal laws and moral order as well as the exercise of their natural rights, the state would have succeeded in re-engineering our systems to build a society that promotes law and justice -while at the same time protecting them from abuse. The aim of practical politics is to surround any given society with the greatest possible number of circumstances of which the tendencies are beneficial and to remove or counteract, as far as practicable those of which the tendencies are injurious. A summon on the state for a better effort in the regulation of our environment to be more humane and civilised in order to aid individual's personal development. Providing succour for children who are unfortunate and unlucky to be born into families where children are never encouraged to do good and be responsible individuals. These are parents who misguide their children and praise them, only, when they do the illicit, the immoral and the illegal. Thus distorting their ideas of the universal rights and wrongs; warp their minds and leave them with character deformation and a misconceived perception of law and moral order. The state is under obligation in these circumstances to intervene so as to prevent the generation of unnecessary social costs that could strain resources and sometimes constitute a drain on the disposable income of the tax payers. We should recognise the fact that most vicious and immoral acts are habit forming. At first it feels impossible, then transgressive and finally mundane. It is the condition of actually doing things that cumulatively shapes our thoughts and minds. If we believe in the capacity of our citizens and the importance of human resources for the next level of our evolution; we need to formulate policies that could help bring about the proper development of our citizens, fashioning their thought processes and prepare their minds for the social skills needed to survive in the emergent future. In preparing for this new stage of our evolutionary journey, our society urgently need development of the culture of respect of the rule of law and an awakening of our moral conscience to stop banalisation of evil. If care is not taken in stopping the increasing tolerance of permissibility of hitherto unnatural phenomenon in our social lives that could lead to self-destruction. As civilisation evolves such modes of human behaviour would have become converted from instinctive impulses to social norms, then to legal imperative, and ultimately to moral principles. We should be very selective in our adoption of social conventions into the main stream, in the absence of an elaborate and well conceived moral and ethical standard.

A modern society should not only stipulate the laws and provide a moral order it should also allow individuals the exercise of their undeniable natural right that no one owe them, but that they possess by virtue of their innate qualities as human beings. Which include the right to the protection of their minds and environment from any form of character attack, corruption and harm. Four legitimate kinds of provocation or triggering acts to which we all have a legitimacy to retaliate in defence of our person and individuality are insulting assaults; seeing a friend or relative attacked; seeing a country man deprived of liberty and seeing a spouse in an adulterous act. One can imagine the kind of effect and crime that could emanate from such acts due to lack of respect for law and moral order. Much as a biochemical reaction can take place when two suitable molecules meet in the presence of a catalyst, the idea goes, so crime results when potential offenders encounter targets in circumstances conducive to crime.