Children-!
Each to your prospective rooms/corners/keyboards!
BearWash - There is a higher law - and when that higher law spoke He reminded us what our duties are under the law.
Williams - You may not understand a higher law other than logic. Yet there is a time when logic will fail us because as humans we are willing to fool ourselves.
You are both right. Two sides of the same coin. Both ideals are what are the country was based upon.
Over time, and tears, and even a war the people clung together. Even when we hated what the other person stood for and thought sometimes, they were in fact evil personified. Why: Because we are a Republic.
BearWash - Your higher law would dictate you be willing to die if need be if you chose to violate the law. Not that you couldn't - because you have Free Will - but that you accept the outcome.
Williams - You may not like it, but that Higher Law guides you, too. Because you make decisions on right and wrong - though you phrase it logically.
Now I'll take my soapbox and go home for lunch. I think I hear my mommy calling me. (humor.)
I accept your intervention. Thank you.