Governing Principles and Laws of Nature

One of the major problems with the world today is that no one seems to have any governing principles anymore. Today, as you look around you can see men who have open affairs without any shame; men who think that cheating on their taxes should only be corrected when a high political office is offered them. ( this is not just making mistakes or taking deductions incorrectly, it is someone straight up not filing.) Men who contract to perform a certain amount of work, and then skip town when they have a little cash in hand. "Show me your Principles." Some may ask, "where do you find universal principles?" John Locke, a philospher ahead of his time, makes clear where universal principles can be found. In his second book of civil government Locke states "we must consider, what state all men are naturally in,.... a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature." He continues "In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason...which is that measure God has set.... for their mutual security" What is the result of this decission? "He becomes dangerous to mankind, the tye which is to secure them from injury and violence, being slighted and broken by him." Nature's God has laid out some pretty basic rules for his creation to be able to interact one with anohter. ( Honour thy father and mother, thou shalt not kill, not commit adultery, not steal, not bear false witness, not covet, ect...) But have we listened to nature's God? No, and this is what has lead to the state in which we are currently in. Real men are in need of a moral world view. A personal set of beliefs that will allow them to interact with one another and society as a whole. As this blog continues I hope we will visit key moral obligations that the laws of nature, and "natures God", compells of each of us as we try to become "Real Men."