You know...some irony

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

And I dont agree with the law and civilization thing. Yes, the civilization writes the laws, but thats just a select few who do so. They rest of the populace has to stay in bounds of those rules, thusly, defining who they are.

Yes, but in the case of democracy (or democratic republic in our case) civs those select few are chosen by the many to represent them. The rules and laws are constantly changing as well, even in totalitarian regimes. It is a common belief that in order to rule a nation/civilization you must appease the people. This has been shown time and time again with empires like Rome and even the Mongols, who assimilated parts of conquered civs into their own and even would considered conquered civs to be "protectorates", meaning they essentially ran themselves but were a part of Rome.

We can see people rebelling against laws they don't agree with in Europe already. In France, there are No Go Zones. No Go Zones are areas that the police and authorities do not go that are controlled by Mosques and Islamic law. Essenitally France has agreed to allow parts of their population to remove itself from their country and rule themselves because they do not agree with modern democratic/Western rule. (Credit Glenn Beck radio program)

If the people do not agree with a law, no select few can make them adhere to it.

Laws can be changed in a matter of weeks, but a civilization cant be.

Exactly.