you should try to limit religious rational for civic laws as a measure of protection. by "religious" i mean hard-code theological motives, and not sentimental/traditional/historical aspects which have religious roots.

There is often a great deal of difference between the will of all and the general will; the latter considers only the common interest, while the former takes private interest into account, and is no more than a sum of particular wills: but take away from these same wills the pluses and minuses that cancel one another, and the general will remains as the sum of the differences.

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