Just better promoted than others. I mean Magna Carta technically enforced the rule of law over the king, but it didn't work before the Restoration, while the rule of law would work in some other countries.

​@@piotrmalewski8178 it worked up until the Norman invasion. The Magna Carta was only a portion of what was lost over a hundred years prior. Parliament was a centralization of power belonging originally to the witenagemot, found in the gates of every city our Anglo-Saxon ancestors dwelt. Every city would assemble and adjudicate the every cause and they had authority to deny the king his request for taxes. Returning to the common law originally had by them is the answer to all our political woes in the world today. Considering the constitution is perfectly compatible with our sacred ancestral laws before they were ever written down is a miracle in itself.

As Humans consciously ,merrily and confidently ,express the whims of its social conditioned Egos. The future generations can see the glow of insanity ,that has destroyed a Human future.

@@shanikaswasey3708Kent Codex onwards

I highly recommend watching this documentary by Peter Hitchens on how our laws and rights have been eroded and changed kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eb-Pdcqfv8rbm6M.htmlsi=W3o5wEDve5EXGxoh

We sent all the best and brightest, it's why you all do well and all can have a laugh 🤣

As another Australian, I second that comment! I'm so glad we DON'T have a presidential system.

I'm glad you get to benefit from it too. We're cousins. And I love that. 😃👍

I lived in Australia for 20 years and got tired of the anti English narrative.. but, it's fashionable IMHO.

I appreciate this man's view...we aren't a bad ol', bunch...

As an American I feel a kindred spirit with India as a former British colony.

English common law is ignored when it come to his home !

Thank you.

Thankyou

You should be grateful to the English for the Constitution and Common Law. The British had nothing to do with it. The British have only existed since 1706/7 and ignore our Constitution to this day.

Nobody is rewriting history. Just bringing to light the bits that were previously ignored, turned away from, and swept under the carpet.

​@@pgl0897The entire world constantly reminds Britain about there imperial roots. Nothing gets hidden about it. If anything all the cool stuff that benefeited humans is brushed under the rug. You know like literally inventing the modern world?

@@bootlegpete7984 That doesn’t seem to be the case to me tbh. A point that I think is somewhat emphasised when people make claims like Britain “invented the modern world”. To use OP’s example about tearing down statutes, the overriding narrative about Edward Colston for centuries was that he was a wonderful philanthropist that gave money to build schools and hospitals and assist the poor. The sort of person we build statues for to revere them. Nobody stopped to think where all this money came from, and the exploitation and harm that was caused accruing that wealth. We may just have to agree to disagree, but I recommend Akala’s book Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire on this topic. It’s brilliant and gives an important different perspective.

Slave trading aint great though is it? Thats why the colston statue was torn down. There are things we can be proud of and things we shouldn’t be proud of.

@@bootlegpete7984 there and their. Two different words.

This country has always welcomed people fleeing oppression. Genuine refugees will always be welcome

Have a listen to the late Jerry Springer on the subject, his family experience.

Nice that the English had opportunity to attone expelling Jews and having centuries long ban on entrance for them. I wonder would that guy think about UK now seeing millions marching streets and chanting antisemitic slogans.

God Bless Him. I'm happy to hear that he found a safe place to live amongst us.

If only we had that attitude now. Reform are getting the dense vote, and there's a lot of dense people nowadays.

As an english exile, it's a thumbs up from moi !

I don’t.

I don’t have any. Sorry to disappoint you.

I don’t have any. I feel guilt for my actions not anybody else’s.

Well said! ​@@Shell2164

For all the hype about our super law system, we have lost the right to free speech.

Hate is attracted to success

​@@darkmatter6714 And that hate started with Satan, and then Cain.

They hate us because they ain’t us! 👍🇬🇧

Yawn. I gave up imaginary friends when I was 4. ​@@robertmccabe8632

They are jealous of us -that's it in a nutshell

damn right.

Sowell is a treasure...

Exactly. He's a very sharp man. It's great to see people trying to argue against him and struggling.

But it was the English in particular not the west in general.

@@Paul.Morgan Until the 1830s it wasn't anyone. The shift in attitudes pretty well started in Britain just before then, and was complete across the entire west, and her off-shoots, by the 1880s. Sowell was contrasting that phenomenon with countries outside of the influence of the west where this did not occur. And also with civilisations of the past that made no conscious effort to dispense with slavery, let alone attempt to impose an abolitionist standard on others. Only the west did this. The west also maintains that standard to this day. Unfortunately, slavery is starting to reestablish as a social norm in some areas where the west has now lost influence. That reemergence seems to underline the point.

Slavery is live and kicking today to be fair but not so much in England at least, unless you consider amazon distribution facilities 😅

And I feel bad for the Americans who have to live under our ‘two party system’ after leaving the old world to forge a new life

Hi Iam. Don't try to sweet-talk your mother, go tidy your room. Cheers, P.R.

Haha...'Thanks Mum'....A few years ago on July 4th a British newspaper had on it's front page 'Happy Birthday USA, love Mum'...I forget which newspaper it was

The English language is the lingua franca of the world. Common law is the bedrock of freedom and justice. And Britain led both the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. As an American these facts are not lost on me.

Please can you tell me where the country of btitain is as i see 2 countries and a principality on the main land ,ENGLAND,SCOTLAND ,AND WALES ,

​@@christinehornsby1984Britain is a collective of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The other names for us is the UK (United Kingdom), the British Isles, and Great Britain. They are technically 4 separate countries under one main parliament of government although the other countries do have their own parliaments of governance the houses of Parliament in London remains the main head of UK government. Complicated I agree.

England does not have its own parliament as a nation ,neither boes wales and scotland or norther ireland they have assenblies not parliaments ,eventho scotland wales and northrr ireland can make some laws they are still hoverned by the british parliament in london ,england does not have any parliament or assembly in is governed only by the british parliament in london​@@sliderdriver1

@@sliderdriver1 Britain = England, Scotland and Wales. UK = England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland. British Isles = England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland (Northern & republic).

lol youre an Englishman standing on the ruins of Scotland and wales

Ironically it was not the English that did it. It all started with some French habituated Scandinavians. SIC: Devout Christian Normans!

I'm British, so the British and the French have killed more people around the world in the name of colonisation than any other country.

@@philiprowney You're American aren't you? I can tell

@@melzeebub92 nope, guess again. [ tries to make a 'you must be a stupid American' argument', that's plain xenophobic ] If you knew how to use Google, you'd know exactly where I am from and what my ethnicity is. It's not like there are only 7 people with my name in the country of my birth... [ clue: 1 in 10,000,000 ]

An Englishman in New Zealand or Australia perhaps but the homeland right now is struggling somewhat

@@mirarstudios I'm still here to do something about it.

I remember the quote...and Rhodes writes as an englishman to another englishman....because if you are an englishman you don't sing and shout about how fortunate you are to be one to a non-englishman...With good grace you just feel it and know it...and keep quiet

Can we still identify as an Englishman? We have to be British these days so how can I be proud to be "English"? Our separate UK countries don't seem to be recognised! @@mirarstudios

Where much is given... much is expected (Luke 12:48)

Your flag disgusts me and all patriots in England

It’s also worth noting that the cost of ending the slave trade wasn’t officially paid off until 2015, which means that British people alive today, actually contributed (financially) to ending it.

we literally initiated the end of slavery, to remove us from the process is like replacing the acknowledgement of parents struggles during christmas in favour of a fat man in a red suit endorsed by coca cola,

In actual fact slavery was on the statute of being illegal in 1066 but in the 1740’s I think is when the first case were brought to justice against people that came from the Americas with there slaves and had to grant them freedom with financial recompense. In Lincoln Square Manchester, UK there is a statue from Abraham Lincoln given to the people of Manchester that supported him in abolishing slavery in the Americas by not using the cotton from the slavery fields in America. The Portuguese actually had more that 2.5 times more slaves than any other country. The British Navy had ships patrolling the seas of the Americas to capture slave ships and free the slaves. And it was considered a job to be proud of at the time. We the British/ English have been slaves several times should we not also be compensated, I think not the world needs to move forward remembering the mistakes and horrible things but not constantly dwelling on them you can’t progress if you are constantly living in the past.

@@martinpearce7347to be clear the law was against having a slave in England in that period it did not restrict it in the commonwealth

I gotta agree with you there friend. Please take a step back and not hate US for the amount of information we are kept from and worse the amount of misinformation we are being forced upon. We are no doubt under a spell by more than just 2 political parties I imagine. The weapon of propaganda has never been so strong and its gets stronger everyday while many of us seem to get weaker. Evil genius

Hi there "beloved son". Bai Jove old chap, that's a bit over the top! To be frightfully honest with you, you can't possibly know that England's glorious empire was the last great empire. The playing fields of Eton have not yet hosted their last game, and greater things may be at hand. England may yet rise from the ashes even though she loses the cricket to Australia. I hope you're not one of those foreigners who live in the blessed land who now think they're pukka Englishmen. Never mind if you are, your heart's in the right place. Cheers, P.R.

@@philliprobinson7724 Phillip REALLY, if Britain, and yes it was Britain, not England, rises again it will still be the British Empire and so that will be the same Empire, we were just taking a nap and so it would still be the last great Empire.

@@abelovedsonofGodinwhomHeis35-6 Hi There B.S.o.G. (etc.) Alas, my trousers have fallen down, you've trounced me on two technicalities. "Well done my good and faithful savant." Go now to thine well earned rest. But before you doze in imperial splendour, remember what the Good Book says. "A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands, (A LITTLE NAP,) and ruin will come upon thee like an armed man, and poverty like a thief." (Prov 24:33-34) Britain's greatness may come and go as Britons dream their lives away underneath the arches,, but THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND Cheers, P.R.

What's God got to do with it? He's dead.

100%, we knock our own country but i would never live anywhere else

AFTER making hundreds of trillions building an empire… you decided to throw some pennies back. Good job. 👍🏿

@@lekudos We finished paying off the debt of abolishing slavery in 2015. If the debt takes nearly 200 years to pay off it isn't pennies. We also lost thousands of lives in stopping slave ships from Africa. Good job on your ignorance of history.

@@lekudosthat’s quite an ignorant statement. I suggest you go and visit Africa and ask the countries who sold the slaves (hint: they weren’t white people) to give reparations. I dare you. Even in modern day Africa/ Middle East there is a huge human trafficking/slave trade going on even today. It isn’t us white people buying slaves 😂

@@lekudosYou do know that every day you use British inventions, right? Your entire life and the lives of your loved ones revolve around technological advances and scientific discoveries made by Britain. Are those the pennies you speak of? Your entire life is based on pennies?

​@@lekudosHundreds of trillions? HUNDREDS OF TRILLIONS? Where the hell did you get that figure from? For a start, that's impossible, because there's never been THAT much money in the entire world. Who built our country? Not the empire, that's for sure! Ordinary working men and women went down the mines, toiled in the factories, worked the land, built our infrastructure, and paid for it with years of hard graft. No slaves here at all, except for the working classes who had to make their living any way they could. Where's all that supposed wealth gone for the children of those with so-called white privilege? And some of those very men fought and died to free enslaved people across the globe, cheered on by their fellow countrymen. And now we're supposed to pay reparations for slaves our ancestors never had and never profited from? The empire was extremely expensive to administer - it was more for prestige than anything else because we were in competition with our European neighbours - it's what they tried to do, and we were just 'better' at it. We've paid our reparations over many, many years, and, I have to say, the countries of the empire haven't done that badly on the global stage compared to the nations of other faded empires. When our power was at its height, we used it to free the oppressed across the world with our navy - which is more than anybody else did! 🇬🇧

Two countries are primarily responsible for the creation of the modern world, Great Britain and the United States and there would be no United States if not for Great Britain. Thank God for Great Britain.

He said this during his final address to Congress, "Today the principle of habeas corpus, established when King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215, is under attack..." Perhaps you refer to that? Historically he was mistaken as Habeas Corpus comes from the Assize of Clarendon of 1166 during the reign of Henry II. The king's reforms did much to wrest power out of the hands of the barons and into the Royal Courts. Ironically, some of Magna Carta was an attempted push back against that, but thankfully the changes had become embedded enough to prevent it happening. Henry II was one of our greatest kings for what he did in this respect, but is today sadly remembered chiefly for the murder of Thomas Beckett, which stemmed from his understandable frustration that one sixth of England's population who counted as 'clergy' (this is not just priests but any person who had studied in some church establishment including almost everybody who was literate) could only be tried for crimes in ecclesiastical courts, which were far more lenient than the king's. That probably remained an underlying sore point until the break with Rome nearly 400 years later.

@@ShanghaiRooster Had a few problems with his sons, I seem to remember.

Who doesn't .​@@onastick2411

@@ShanghaiRooster Those years typed on a page! it is sobering to think of the effort put in against kings over 800 years ago. The enlightenment of the English took centuries but no other nation has come close to the same level. There are of course enlightened people in all cultures but no other culture enshrined it in law in the same way.

As an American I've come to appreciate was is known as the "Special relationship" There really is a lot to it and not just a nice slogan.

Britian is not England Britain is a construct created in 1707 by the Money

@@donaldclifford5763The special relationship is largely a myth

@@donaldclifford5763 During a voyage to London in December 1918, Woodrow Wilson told his aides that if Britain did not come to terms over sea power, America would “build the biggest Navy in the world, matching theirs and exceeding it…and if they would not limit it, there would come another and more terrible and bloody war and England would be wiped off the face of the map.” So much for the special relationship

@@seanmoran2743 :) it's an island... been there since the last ice age!!

Lol. Greetings from Ireland.

It’s true. Britain has been a shining light for the world yet they are seen as being oppressors. They freed most the world and brought democracy and common law

Our government is not doing a good job of fighting for the liberty of its citizens at this moment.

​​@@hoonaticbloggs5402 That's the same over most of the world right now due to the 2 and 3 letter agencies making their bid for total control of humanity. Politicians are mostly controlled by them, the further up the ladder they are the more they are controlled.

I'm British, and feel that these islands are especially sacred. There really is something in the ground here beyond what you see, and its reflected in what happens. No matter what, it will all turn out right in the end, although there will be trouble in the meantime.

It also helps if you have an IQ of 160

The founders were Deists. Thomas Paine Age of Reason "without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vein". Also common law is historically monarchical and stems from the Anglo-Saxons, not the Normans.

Grammar, logic, rhetoric.

A peerless ability to summarise a corpus within a few paragraphs without pause.

That what happens when ones life doesn't revolve around TV and movies. Hence others like Dr Thomas Sowell, Dr Ben Carson, D'Souza.

And they opposed it for good reasons, i.e. to maintain stability. Until they realised that the writing was on the wall and relinquished Governorship.

@@rayjennings3637 Indian self rule was a long process, it took well over 100 years for them to get to the point they could actually rule themselves. You are looking at a few years in a long process, try looking at the wider picture and avoid the modern tendancy to look simply at the last flashpoint.

Most of them wouldn't be able to understand him.

@@alastair9894 i know a fraud when i see and hear one.

You need to get out more.. he's never the smartest man in the room when he does public debates

He's deeply religious, that disturbs me greatly considering he's an so called ''intellectual''.

@@Pagan-71He was an intellectual first, religion coming afterwards. This is actually not that uncommon. But, for the sake of argument, even those who aren’t religious can benefit hugely by the morals taught by religion and, in fact, already do in daily life.

As a Welshman I'm so relieved you're an American, stay there, never get a passport and never ever leave.

Of course you should thank God. Otherwise you’d be Spanish ruled and end up like South America.

And parliamentary democracy.

​@@georgebailey8179Not to forget Ed Sheeran.

And the Writ of Habeas Corpus - no rotting in a foreign jail for months, then having to prove you are innocent. Some people believe this Writ is a part of the Magna Carta. It isn't.

"How splendid we are"? Really! The UK is a corrupt vampire state where a large percentage of wealth created by the working class is sucked up to the top. As for common law rights, you have no rights that cannot be abolished or restricted by a simple act of parliament, and if you think that some authority has infringed your rights then you have to pursue the matter in court at your own expense while the offending authority will fight you with the bottomless pit of taxpayers money - guess who will win? It is certainly a splendid system, it keep the plebs in their place and the elite in the manner to which they are accustomed.

Did you say war saved the world from fascism or did you say Britain saved the world from fascism? Neither is correct. Check the statistics. Why are we so proud of the lottery of being born in a certain geographical location.

@@ennuied Oh, pardon me! I keep forgetting that America won WWll single handed...

@@ennuied Because it's not a lottery. My ancestors fought for me to be born on this island.

Hi Rosemary. I love the humour of Noel Coward. Let's sing the song of patriotic prejudice together. " The English the English the English are best, I couldn't give tuppence for all of the rest. Hubris is a small price to pay for being English. Cheers, P.R.

I'm mostly English, but Scottish historical contributions to the World are humbling, one of the most influential and innovative ever, even more so when realising it came from such a small population! We have to find our way back to be the kind of people again, we have lost our identity to a large degree.

God didn’t make it though because there is no God obviously.

@@pompeylad1977 Well he didn't make Portsmouth.

@@roryblake3232 of course he didn’t, God didn’t create anything because there isn’t a God, man created Portsmouth and every other town, village and city on earth just like man created the British Empire.

You clearly ain’t had a pecan plait

We're sorry the UK and India didn't stay in union. Imagine the good that could have been done for the world.

It all started with Britain wanting to trade spices but found a sub continent at war with itself, with lots of small kingdoms not good for trade, then hopefully left a Nation not at war with itself.

Gandhi is how we spell it.

@@PMA65537Ghandi or Gandhi - does it really matter? I mean in English neither घ gh nor ध dh is a phoneme in English, English speakers simply pronounce it as if it were spelled ‘Gandi’ or ‘Gahndi’. But they know there should be an h in the spelling somewhere… which doesn’t make sense (to them) because ‘it’s not pronounced anyway’… and they don’t always remember where this ‘superfluous’ h belongs

The British have gifted us the blessings of the Modern World! Our Tragedy is that those who make a cult of shaming a Nation that has so much to be proud of never examine their own sins or crimes or have anything to offer that is any better!

Oh the English did that, did they? Nothing to do with the Welsh or Scottish?

@@cthutu Well, you evidently missed that this video is about an ENGLISH subject, not a British one. There are many things the Welsh, and especially the Scottish, have done (so many discoveries), but I was writing about the ENGLISH. You have to read better.

I live in northern Ireland a lived in Scotland for a few years n I've experienced English hate, was my first time n now 5 years later, I genuinely do feel different about my country. Like being English automatically makes you a c***

I think that is just a common mistake made outside Britain, they don't understand that all English people are British, but not all British people are English. I've even had letters addressed to me in Wales, England because Americans often think Wales is a county! We should have given the world our school geography curriculum too!

Tell that to the police.

Yes and it’s the same in India. My grandfather was sent to Burma in the WW2 and stayed there with the British army for 3 years. When the British withdrew its troops, my grandfather told me that the locals were crying when they left…

What were the practical implications of the disparity in approach of the two legal systems that caused you concern? Speaking as an English lawyer who works regularly with civil law jurisdictions I would argue that the economic and political consequences of Brexit massively outweigh the eminently resolvable differences between common and civil law approaches

never a minute, its usually hours of pain listening to him trying to change the subject when he's challenged, before the usual tearful theatrics. fraud.

​@@drfeelgood1961give me one example of this please?

Great post.

Yes indeed, excellent post! Are there any links to books/resources that can be recommended to learn more about this incredible man and his life & times?

BS. Utter conflated lies. The Puritans were Satanists. Witch hunting rabid fanatics. They betrayed everyone they sucked in with their empty promises.

England abolished slavery when William the Conqueror took over in the eleventh century.

@@chrisdaniels3929 My understanding is that William the Conquerer banned the trading of slaves to overseas regions. Although not outlawed domestically, slavery within England, was nonetheless substantially reduced under his rule. PS, I double-checked and was wrong... Slavery was not altogether abolished in the Colony of Rhode Island, in 1652. It was merely limited to ten-years - so, essentially RI permitted indentured servitude at that time. It wasn't until 1842 that Rhode Island abolished slavery altogether, something the colony of Vermont had perhaps arguably accomplished (nearly, anyway), well beforehand, in 1777. I have edited my original post to reflect this new insight.

Kingston-Upon-Hull

Visited the museum in Hull as a child and it left lasting impression on me. Sadly slavery is still rife in many parts of the world.

I taught legal English abroad, learning about common law compared to Civil law, we're so lucky.

Correct - Blackstone is THE authority on Coverture; which destroys the feminist concept of oppressive marriage.

Thanks for the recommendations.

So you’re saying that English Common Law is based upon fairy tales and Santa Clause ?

British and proud of what? English common law has nothing to do with Britain, you do realise that Britain is not a country it’s a land mass and political union between England and Scotland we English patriots consider the British to be our enemy as we are a captive nation, the only European country without its own parliament!

As am I but I still think we are better and stronger as a part of the EU.

Yes be proud don’t be ashamed to be 🏳️‍🌈

@@miamijim5964 BS

​@@miamijim5964the EU isn't looking strong.

Whats wrong with you? This is your 4th comment?? Bot?

Millions upon millions of Indians who died in famines perpetrated by the British colonialists who exported rice to England while watching millions of children die of starvation … beg to differ. Apparently: “They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.” (Winston Churchill) Thousands of years of mathematics astronomy architecture in India… and yet… people are out here posting ‘can you imagine the current state of India if….’ British education has fallen a long way. 👀

Can you imagine Ireland if the British hadn't come and turned it into a plantation? I can.

​@@libertyfirst4083There was no unified Ireland before UK. UK did so much good for Ireland, blame UK for a potato blight and take no accountability for their own stupid decisions?

JP clearly wants to sell books in UK - sucking up big time…

@@rwentfordable The point, rwentfordable? The point is to leave people alone! Unified. Un-unified. Always squabbling. Never squablling...The English invaded Ireland with the intent to subjugate it. They market that subjugation by saying, here, let us save you from yourselves. If that means we have to kill a "few" of you, well, that's just the cost of us "helping" you. If that means cutting down virtually all of the forests and turning the naked land into plantations to grow food for us and taking your cattle and pigs and making fishing off your own shores illegal, why this is all in the way of "unifying, y'all." Please. Spare me.

Yeah because Americans like alot of people have jumped on the whole Anti-English nonsense, and would rather claim to be of anything other than English decent

No, we make our laws in Parliament, and that includes the modifying of common laws.

​​@@StudentDad-mc3puWe don't know. Everything has been outsourced to quangos. Similar to Europe. Intrest rates, farming, Ukrainan and Covid policy. None of this was debated in Parliament. We are not a common law country anymore.

Yes Common Law is still the dominant in our courts, judicial precedent is still the dominant factor.

Some, known as constitutional laws, cannot be modified in any way by mere parliamentarians. The living people are the principal ones, government is by public servants. Parliamentary 'sovereignty' is only an opinion, according to Hallsbury. Several learned in law have clear details on this. Too much of this subject is now omitted from education, including law schools.

@@motorvating Acts of Parliament produce primary legislation that supercedes both common law and constitutional documents.

There is no such thing as a British Constitution...the infiltrators (British) HIDE 'UKS' powerful, protective ENGLISH CONSTITUTION to enslave us and forward globalism.Yes great advice to watch Graham Moore..the only expert on English Law, our rights the truth and how to stop tyrany .

The Dutch revolt preceeded the Glorious revolution, which was actually the Dutch Republic's invasion. They even had to bring John Locke over to London because in the freedom of the Netherlands he could write his important works.

Reparations are a common law right, against private property. In war, such as the Treaty of Versailles, reparations were a stipulation in said treaty, not fundamental law.

Rousseau's social contract bollocks gave the world both Fascism and Communism. Rousseau can get f-ed.

Telegraph logo top right. Just look up Jordan peterson telegraph interview

Because the resistance of the slaves by itself wouldn’t have worked, whereas the “sympathy” of the English, as you put it, did.

janesterhuysen4722: your comment is intriguing. I don't know the histories of these countries beyond the sweep of them having been part of British or French empires. Can you offer some clarifying examples?

Mentioning the names of which countries were controlled by which power already tells me what I need to know. The British shit on the French 👍

There is no discernable consistent pattern in Africa, as you propose. Top African countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia, and Algeria use code/civil law. While the far more impoverished Liberia uses common law. Seychelles, the top gdp pc country, uses a mix of both. So no theres no causative link. Civil law is also far more widely used worldwide.

Jordan peterson telegraph interview

It is an old idea, one that we find even in Vedic philosophy, that says that the discursive mind is a great tool for us humans to use, but is just that, a tool. This sort of rational thinking can solve the problems we encounter in the world, but when we let ourselves be governed by discursive thinking (as most of us are in the modern world) it will lead us astray. For the rational intellect on its own has no sense of true value. It can create value out of nothing through its own thought processes. True value comes from our conscience, which is the higher part of our consciousness, in all cultures traditionally related to our immortal souls. This is the part of ourselves that is connected to the world at large and is therefore capable of understanding right and wrong, which is the harmony of natural law.

@@thijsdebacker9490 - rationality isn't always humane!!

thijsdebacker9490: Beautifully stated. I think, also, that this is what explains what can go wrong with AI. AI is brutally rational. This works fine in many cases, but then there are others where the result is bizarre, or even intolerable.

@@thijsdebacker9490 Hi. You make a good point. It seems to me that reason without compassion tends to become a tyrant, but compassion without reason becomes a slave to that tyrant. It's a variation of the question, "which is most important, truth or love?" Without truth (reason) we become like the animals, but without love we also become like animals. Cheers, P.R.

‘Reason is the slave of the passions’. Reason is the means to the passions ends.

In prison for stickers?

@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 For calling my ex wife an un-PC name in an argument. She provoked it with phone recording sound. Set-up.

Those have been going around, I here. Sad.

You're meant to ask for a jury of your peers - not Piers Morgan, dufus.

As a British man are you now proud of the joke of a justice system it has?

Proud of being British too but absolutely convinced leaving EU has been a disaster and a complete step backwards.

the biggest act of self harm, sanctioning ourselves.

🤣🤣

No - England had acquired a Bill of Rights in 1689 in deposing James II/VII i a coup d'etat. Britain was a Constitutional Monarchy by 1776, and King George had no real power/authority to do anything anywhere. The U.S. Bill of Rights is very much based on the English Bill of Rights.

​​@@thehowlingmisogynist9871 Britain's Constitution was based on actual power, not a document. King George was therefore literally a sovereign-citizen, sovereign by convention and social power, and citizen by right. He could do what he did, such as sending Macartney's diplomatic mission to China, because he had the real world power of the throne as the most prestigious institution in Great Britain.

@@youbigtubership - No - Royal power was limited by the Bill of Rights etc. The Monarch could not raise an Army - therefore, could enforce nothing. Parliament could not hold a Standing Army for more than a year. You are confusing 'The Crown' with the Monarchy. The Monarch is part of that concept as a mere figurehead.

@@thehowlingmisogynist9871as amazing as it is the 1688 declaration of rights it is ignored by those who are bound by it and constantly create rules that make a mockery of it and we the people generally don’t know or understand our birth rights