[beckett]

Aquinas was much wiser — the state can only deal with certain obviously dangerous external crimes that would undermine the possibility of civil living, those that the generality of men can observe. The rest we should leave to freedom and virtue and the practical and fallible prudence of existing states, a prudence not all have, to be sure. Ultimate justice is found only in the transcendent order.

BB: More beautiful insights of Father Schall....

Samuel Johnson said it another way that I've always favored, BB:

How small, of all that human hearts endure
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

[betty boop]

How small, of all that human hearts endure
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

And yet how busy are the "laws" and the "kings" these days! Of course, most of their interventions designed to make us and society "perfect" (according to their idea of "perfection") are perfectly illegitimate for the reason that Samuel Johnson gives in this quotation....

And yet there are those among us today who will not rest until every private care of the human heart has been socialized and/or politicized....

It really is most annoying.