Law

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The Law in These Parts

Never lose your self-respect. Let your integrity be the true standard of all your actions. Your self-assessment should be stricter than the laws that govern human behavior. You should avoid evil because of your own strict standards over and above mere laws.

“In these parts, I am the law.”

It’s a classic western line. One man stand between a cowering town and a gang of hostile outlaws. And while the town has certain laws in the books, the sheriff makes it clear in no uncertain terms that he has the authority to do whatever is necessary – law or no law- to protect the ones entrusted to his care.

Each of us has on obligation to protect the parts that have been assigned to us- hands that are tempted to steal when no one is looking, feet that treathen to take us places we ought not go, ears eager for malicious gossip, eyes that gaze on things better left unseen. There are laws that draw lines between what is permitted and what is punishable, et those laws don’t always slice cleanly between the right and wrong.

Regardless of what laws are in the books, YOU are the law in your parts. YOU have the final say on what is and not allowed.

We can spend our lives searching for loopholes to allows us to cross certain moral lines while remaining within the law. But is that really how we want to determine our actions? If so, life become more a matter of “getting away with stuff” rather than living according to principles we believe in our hearts to be good, right and true.

We would do well to forget the code of the rest. What matters more is the internal code of conscience that keeps us focused on integrity.

So when your temptation assemble and threaten to do damage to your reputation, immediately call up your ‘law-yer’ and plan a counter attack in compliance with The Book of Law.