"Master, in the country of the Dutch, the Batavii, they call the study of Law, the 'science of rights', as it is in Germany and Spain. When such a student once told me he studied Rights, I said that this was impossible since it would imply fundamental ethics, of which there is no sign in the whole university. I told him: 'You study the laws and they have nothing whatever to do with Rights and Duties'. He could not understand."
"Indeed he would not, nor the obvious fact that his Rights, his very Rights, are violated every second of his life."
"I do not understand."
"Is it not his Right, like everybody's, that he be governed in
an absolute fair and sane way? Does this not 'de facto' imply a
World-Government instead of the pre-Herodotean 'Nationalist',
sovereign, state, the voted government of six year old kids? The
student, lacking commonsense, lacking insight in Nature, in the
Way, is beyond that. Better avoid discussions with an unwilling
participant, Ling."