Above the Law

Question from the Internet:

Why do we need the laws of society when many disregard them, feel that they are above the law, what use is for such laws if they do not work?

We need “human laws” in order to prevent total chaos, to prevent people literally consuming each other driven by our inherently selfish, egoistic, and hateful nature.

While animals also have a natural survival instinct to facilitate the continuity of their species and they also seemingly consume each other.

There is a huge difference between other animals and “human animals” (that we are by default). Other animals — besides their instinctive self-preservation — have an overriding sense of Nature’s overall balance, homeostasis, and it can override even their self-preservation.

They never consume, accumulate more than what they truly need, they only leave their natural habitat if natural catastrophes or humans force them. The predator eats from the prey what it needs at that moment, while leaves the rest for secondary predators and scavengers. This “circle of life” is very precisely regulated in order to sustain the overall integrity of the system.

Humans — on the contrary — act like cancer, consume selfishly, way beyond natural necessities and they ruthlessly compete, fight for resources and survival, succeeding at each other’s and nature’s expense.

This is why we need our artificial human laws and still, we fail again and again.

The only way we can correct this situation is when human beings learn how to live within the optimal parameters of natural necessities, available resources, consciously adapting themselves to Nature’s system. Then we will not need our artificial, insufficient human laws any longer.

And this is our human advantage in evolution, that humans will be adapted to nature consciously, above and against their inherent nature — giving us unprecedented insight, understanding of nature’s system, becoming its objective partners and witnesses.