People who can only be disciplined by enforcement are little more than slaves. Obey my laws, or be whipped! It is an aspect of a free people, that they can learn to live with one another without the whip hanging over their heads. Of course, there are always penalties for flouting those laws. However, people who are free in the sense that they are not constrained by the laws but follow them freely are acting not because they fear penalties, but truly feel that the laws are right.
Yet it is unfortunate that people seem to bind themselves with the shackles of slavery in other forms. In the process of keeping their minds from law-breaking activities, they chain themselves with other things.
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