Community based laws
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One characteristic of a nation state is national laws. These laws apply to all citizens, and are viewed by some as a way of unifying society under one moral code. Is this right? And should it still exist even when world socialism is achieved?
while there are benefits to national and international law, an arguement can be made for laws passed by the community via councils or ballots. These laws would directly suit those who follow them, and less likely to be broken by the very community who came up with them. In the school ground, people pay little attention to what the teacher deems unacceptable, yet the unwritten rules of the pupils, who would scorn people for acting in a way deemed wrong, are often followed. Is this a model society should follow?
My personal opinions is that locally passed and locally enforced laws are much more likely to be obided by and will suit the situation of the community. What are other members opinions on this?
Customs and traditions vary across the globe, but at their core i hope there are some shared values and a universal human ethic which can be incorporated into some sort of code of acceptable behaviour and when these rules are breached, the sanctions are not necessarily designed to be punitive and revenge-based. What i am concerned about is that i fear "mob justice" and "lynch law" being made legitimate expressions of community-feeling and exercised.I have, and this forum has as well, encountered what are self-styled "national anarchists" who describe themselves a racialists, not racists, who seek the establishment of local communities that exclude "alien" cultures and "outsiders" and they advocate their ideas as a form of "localism"
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