It's certainly not allowing the vicissitudes of personal judgment to creep into our official system, either.
[The intimidation actually is gone, now, but only because he's fired by passion. It shines in his expression - though, like so many other of his emotions, that passion just makes him look kind of angry.]
A code of law isn't about ease. And it's not about laying down commandments, as though we're some moral authority. It's about ensuring that the people are protected from us as much as they are from one another. Without the rule of law, we're ruled by man, by individual, who can dictate what he wishes from each situation. It's only by luck and collective hostility towards one another that we've not fallen under the sway of some shipwide tyrant.
Codes of law aren't drafted to enslave us. They're drafted to keep us free, to keep those in power in check.
[And then he remembers himself, and sets his jaw, and drops into a bow.]
I...This is wholly my personal opinion. My statements do not in any way reflect the policy of the security team as a whole.
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[The intimidation actually is gone, now, but only because he's fired by passion. It shines in his expression - though, like so many other of his emotions, that passion just makes him look kind of angry.]
A code of law isn't about ease. And it's not about laying down commandments, as though we're some moral authority. It's about ensuring that the people are protected from us as much as they are from one another. Without the rule of law, we're ruled by man, by individual, who can dictate what he wishes from each situation. It's only by luck and collective hostility towards one another that we've not fallen under the sway of some shipwide tyrant.
Codes of law aren't drafted to enslave us. They're drafted to keep us free, to keep those in power in check.
[And then he remembers himself, and sets his jaw, and drops into a bow.]
I...This is wholly my personal opinion. My statements do not in any way reflect the policy of the security team as a whole.