People are diverse and that is the beauty of belonging to the human race. Some like to live on the edge and push limits. There are others who want structure and things to stay the same. There are degrees in between and there are different areas to apply these principles such as relationships, jobs and leisure activities. In most sciences a person can look at things with precision and produce repeatable results. With social sciences it can be frustrating because there are so many variables. When we land on good principles, we also have a person’s will to factor in. In past studies we have looked at how some people know what is right but choose not to do it, others lack the ability, while still others do wrong involuntarily due to outside forces and influences. Circumstances and particulars are involved too.

The goal for having a stable society is happiness since happiness is the ultimate goal that everyone is reaching for. Politics, or the study of human interactions, is the science that looks at things that help people reach this goal together. Not for just a chosen few, but everyone in a community. In the same way that certain plants thrive with the right nutrients, sunlight, and water, diverse people have needs that vary. The trouble with social planning is that it holds a standard and a template that might be ideal for one group of people but not everyone. A hydrangea wouldn’t be happy to live in the desert like a cactus. But all plants need sunlight, carbon dioxide and water as a general principle. We have to approach relational matters using general principles but there are particulars to each person and area.

A civil government exists to keep people civil with each other and to protect them from hostility. We have to be alive to be happy of course and being free to use our own will is also a requirement. A part of happiness is acquiring things and being able to accumulate goods. That is where we get life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Every person in a country should have equal ability to do what they want with their lives as long as it doesn’t hurt others. Ideally everyone should be free to their own pursuits, but since men aren’t angels, we need to have laws. The rule of law was compared to the rule of personalities in the last post.

The ideal country is one where everyone has good character and looks out for his fellow man. In this structure, anyone can be a leader. Their occupation wouldn’t matter as much as their integrity. When everyone is integral, a political position is more of an office with duties than a means to impose one’s will on others. There is a job to do such as protection and making laws that benefit everyone. The less virtue a a country contains, the more they rely on having a leader to keep thing together. From small groups to large ones, well behaved people need less tending than those who misbehave. People resort to hero worship when they feel deficient in themselves. A society demands tenders when they quit attending to themselves. So when we look at ideal governments, it doesn’t matter if it is a monarchy, aristocracy or democracy, the leaders become tyrants in relation to how much the people are complacent in moral excellence.

The solutions aren’t religious ones. It is an inferior people that need Fathers in the faith or a Pope. We all have things to learn from each other but it should be as equals. When people rise up as individuals and seek their own unique solutions to their dilemmas, a nation becomes stronger. Those who point fingers at others as the cause to their problems are obviously insecure and lack character. This is a sad state for themselves and the people around them. A hero based society feels more comfortable when pointing fingers in either a negative or a positive light. It can be universally observed throughout history that nations with strong individualism and good character will thrive. Notoriety shouldn’t come from any particular leader but from the virtue of the people.