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The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other.
Addenda to Orders in Council The Emperor Paul Muad'dib

From the same source of fiction but, again, no less true and accurate a statement. Read through any legal document in the US and you'll see the parallel here..

umm, excuse me, but why do you present this statement with approval while denying the same idea within biblical law?

Times may change... well not sure really, technology has advanced but mankind is pretty much the same creature he's always been just in a fancier suit... and certainly the laws of the universe haven't budged a micrometer.