piring endless fighting andslaughtering of human beings.Written laws, morals, manners, and customs help synchronize the various parts ofan increasingly complex society. Developments in higher education, technology,national politics, or even from natural phenomena, such as extremes in theweather, all affect the destiny of humankind. Some people are slow to seechanges in the world, while others are quick. As a result, people's livesoperate at different speeds. Moral and legal systems help sustain order in asociety where people operate at different levels of sensitivity, understanding,and speed of thinking. Rule systems, on the whole, concern the evolution ofsensibility rather than insensibility and self-interest.Rule systems are not always the result of one person or party imposing dogmaticprescriptions of behavior on another. They evolve because they are inherentlysensible reflections of the natural order. The capacity of a tiger to kill andmaim other animals, for example, is part of the natural order. Wishing tigersaway will not make the danger disappear. Natural order bestows a power upontigers, which like other powerful things or people in the world should be dealtwith prudently. The ability of a tiger to inflict harm is not subject to opinionor political perspective; it is a "reasonably" known fact. Not all facts arededuced by time-consuming laboratory experimentation. Some are learned overcenturies of time through the experiences of people who, in this instance, havetangled with tigers and learned their power to inflict pain, suffering, anddeath.Systems of morals and manners are inherently sensible perspectives of whatconstitutes prudent behavior in a dangerous and sometimes unpredictable world.Prudence is an aspect of sensibility. The history of the evolution of ethics isessentially the history of sensibility and intelligence coming to life. To movetoward the ethical and legal is to move away from the primitive. There is adynamic r...
