Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Laws describe courts and punishments but basic law makes us all one. Mocking the mean or sinful makes you mean or rejects humanity.
- In plain terms
- We are all equal under basic law and mocking others makes you bad.
- What can you take from it?
- Equality under law means no one is superior.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Are we truly equal before the law?
- How does judgment affect us?
Another view
The concept of a basic law is abstract and debated.
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