The standard is liberty. Its want is responsible for more human caused misery than all other causes combined.
For the record, law preceded Christianity, as did charity, and rudimentary science and mathematics.
Before you go off on some BS rant about license as liberty, I'll state the liberty is synonymous with responsibility.
True, of course, but watch out for the oldest political scam in the book -- the lumping together of genuine responsibility (e.g. keeping one's given word, supporting yourself and family honestly) and the personal preferences of the people in power (e.g. swearing fealty to the ruler's beliefs, supporting the ruler in the style to which he hopes to remain accustomed).
As I have already noted, Msg#69 uses the compilation fallacy in this manner.