Disciplining your will under love, and your love under will. Isn't that what evil Uncle Alistair said?
The whole "harm none" phrase really is pretty useless, once you have the active Will-Love dynamic going on.
It works okay as a generic prescription for happiness: "If it's not hurting anybody, don't get worked up about it." In fact, I think Thomas Jefferson said something like that, regarding the federal government. Something about, "If a man believes in one God, none, or many, it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket." Same could be said of gay marriage. So I guess it would work as a basic federal mandate.
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The whole "harm none" phrase really is pretty useless, once you have the active Will-Love dynamic going on.
It works okay as a generic prescription for happiness: "If it's not hurting anybody, don't get worked up about it." In fact, I think Thomas Jefferson said something like that, regarding the federal government. Something about, "If a man believes in one God, none, or many, it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket." Same could be said of gay marriage. So I guess it would work as a basic federal mandate.