And I wanted to make them durable. I mean DURABLE. Lasting hundreds of years. Thousands even.
You know what I would do? I would make some rules that were even stronger than whatever laws were in effect at a given time. And I would let THE PEOPLE choose whatever transient laws they wanted.
These even stronger rules - would protect people from choosing shitty transient ones.
Well, turns out philosophers DID get this chance.
And, when it came time to write these strong rules - and they wrote ,
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall NOT be violated."
To protect their citizens from whatever government was in effect at the time...
.... the pen lingered....
... and lingered ...
and lingered.
And through no pressure. No outside force except the desire to create a utopia.
...started writing "but".
Why? Why? Why?
Why not just write "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall NOT be violated"?
Think about this, and perhaps you might start to see this world in a slightly better light.