controlling the collective

The amount of aberrant behavior within a collective result from the flawed system of reward and punishment. In order to obtain the full cooperation of all the individuals of a collective it becomes necessary to provide a coherent and intellectually defensible set of rules. When the law is based on politics, race, economic status, or religious beliefs, there will always be ample room for variations in the concept of right or wrong. Rule of law that is based on concepts that are accessible to every literate person and can be defended on the grounds of empirical evidence and reason will inevitably lessen the burden of misinterpretation. There will exist an element of any collective that will be in opposition to a law for which the evidence is lacking to make an informed choice. The collective must provide a means of expressing discontent and create an arena in which the voices of the minority can be heard. When the laws of any collective are based on dogma, the defense of the status quo depends on physical violence. The opposition to any dogma can only achieve change through the use of physical force. If successful, the overthrow of any dogmatic system is usually replaced with equally dogmatic, albeit conceptually different, rules of behavior.