3/22 Prep for Seminar

Q. Do you think that someone who is enlightened (has seen the "light of knowledge") will be better or worse as a law maker than someone still in the cave, though many of their subjects are in the cave as well? Remember that a man who has seen the light can't see in the darkness of the cave and a man in the cave is blinded by the light.

A. I'm not very sure which one would make the better law maker, because both of these have their negative and positive issues. Someone who is enlightened will know more about the issues going on in their society, and they will also know what's the appropriate decisions for their society. But sometimes when you know too much, you can go greedy with power, and knowing that you have power, you can become self-centered, and make decisions that's in your own interest, but not always benefit your society. Someone who has not yet seen the light won't always make the decision that would be in their own interest, or what could benefit themselves, but their society as well. But on the negative side, they won't always know what's going on in their society, so that can cause them to make the inappropriate decision. If they lived in a cave their whole life, their customs, and what they think is right and what is wrong has been based on the personal thoughts and opinions of another peoson with a higher power in the cave, that made the laws. So a person who has never seen the light, what they think is what is right or wrong, they have just been following someone and I don't think that could be best in the outside world, where there is knowledge, because they have not yet been exposed to a world that they never even knew existed.