Can laws contribute to a harmonious and peaceful human society?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readApr 18, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“What is an example of a case where you have experienced that the law can contribute to a harmonious and peaceful society?”

Arbitrary human laws will never contribute to a harmonious and peaceful society.

Both historically and in our times, human ideologies, philosophies and religions all laws are based on are the product of our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and exploitative nature.

As history’s helplessly recurring vicious cycles and our own ceaseless, worsening crisis situations shows, we have no ability to build a harmonious and peaceful society based on human laws.

Life in all human societies is based on ruthless, exclusive competition, survival and success at each other’s expense and on excessive overconsumption to facilitate selfish benefit and profit.

This instinctively cancer-like human existence leads to the collapse of all societies — including ours — driving our generation towards seemingly inevitable self-destruction.

In order to build a harmonious and peaceful human society, we have to take a “non-human” blueprint, which blueprint we can find in Nature’s finely balanced, integral system.

Only when we learn how to build “Nature-like”, positive, sustainable, global, mutually responsible and mutually complementing interconnections and cooperation — above and against our inherent behaviour and tendencies — can human society become harmonious and peaceful.

Our unique human advantage above the rest of Nature is the fact that we will have to reach this compatibility and similarity with Nature’s integral system consciously, in contrast to the behavioural pattern we are born with.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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