George Pyle: When authority is its own worst enemy

“Revelation had indeed no weight with me, as such; but I entertained an opinion that, though certain actions might not be bad because they were forbidden by it, or good because it commanded them, yet probably those actions might be forbidden because they were bad for us, or commanded because they were beneficial to us, in their own natures, all the circumstances of things considered.”— Benjamin Frankin, AutobiographyWe worry about people who don’t follow the rules, who di