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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8126120" data-attributes="member: 6801228">What if the King said &quot;Pay your Taxes or I burn your entire village to the ground and salt the land.&quot; Would that be a good law?No, of course not, that is a horrifically unfair punishment for failing to pay your taxes.Now, what is the action that is being punished? Having thoughts or beliefs that don't match the norm. That is it. You don't have to harm anyone, you don't have to even disrespect the gods. You just have to not worship them.So, what about the King who jails the peasant for thinking that he isn't a very good king? Not for fomenting rebellion, not for disobeying the laws, just for thinking in his own private thoughts &quot;Man, King X sure doesn't do a good job.&quot;That is the very act the Wall punishes. Free Thought. That is the difference between your laws. One is an action that you fail to take. The other is a thought you fail to have.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8126120, member: 6801228"] What if the King said "Pay your Taxes or I burn your entire village to the ground and salt the land." Would that be a good law? No, of course not, that is a horrifically unfair punishment for failing to pay your taxes. Now, what is the action that is being punished? Having thoughts or beliefs that don't match the norm. That is it. You don't have to harm anyone, you don't have to even disrespect the gods. You just have to not worship them. So, what about the King who jails the peasant for thinking that he isn't a very good king? Not for fomenting rebellion, not for disobeying the laws, just for thinking in his own private thoughts "Man, King X sure doesn't do a good job." That is the very act the Wall punishes. Free Thought. That is the difference between your laws. One is an action that you fail to take. The other is a thought you fail to have. [/QUOTE]

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