Vote with your feet.

Feet following after the hands of the law are defiled:  Hands following after the spontaneity of the feet are cleansed -- Uncle Emanuel Watkins.

Our natural rights are not legal rights as the first are more powerful than the second.  How so?  Well, our natural rights reduce to the soul and, as our souls are broken parts from the whole of a larger perfect soul, they can't be destroyed.  Socrates demonstrates this fact in Plato's dialogue "Meno."  Before being born, our souls were part of one perfect soul that knew all things.  Depending on how much trauma they received at birth, each broken soul would forget different amounts of knowledge.

Animals are analogous with plants in this sense.  When we are born, we are in a broken and fetal state.  Over time, we unwind towards light.  As our hearts are born sensing a wonderful order, our heads are both fearful and injured.  This is why a dying puppy will welp for its life even though it doesn't understand what life is.  It senses that it is being separated from this special order.  As he had it figured out, Socrates determined himself to be midwife philosopher.  His duty was to serve broken souls to help them recollect the knowledge that was lost to them.  The idea here isn't to destroy kings (of Greece), but to help the most damaged of souls gain control over their lives and to live like kings themselves as much as possible.

While it was impossible for Socrates to be a Christian as he proceeded Christ, we can still see him playing the part of a good shepherd.  As Plato so masterfully portrayed him, He was surely greater and braver than all the kings leading over the flock of Greece.  Indeed, Socrates could have made a great living as an eloquent sophist entertaining the most intelligent and wealthy of Greece charging them lots of money to provide answers to their questions.  Instead, Socrates would venture down to the marketplace to ask questions of the very least of souls.  As a serving teacher, he provided this service for free.        

As the law can't destroy souls, it has resorted to creating marketplaces as prisons of banishment.  Problem is, there is no place to hide a soul permanently.  Send a Jewish person to hell and the Lord will simply touch them.  Banish a righteous Gentile to Hades and the Lord, because by Jewish law He is not allowed to touch them, will call upon them with His gospel  (Hades is not the same as hell, but is a Greek place at the center of the earth).

Now to introduce a paradox.  As the law today has us voting with our hands, the Lord commands that we vote with our feet:

Mathew 10: 21 A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed. 22And all nations will hate you because you are my followers.  But everyone who endures to the end will be saved. 23When you are persecuted in one town, flee to the next. I tell you the truth, the Son of Mang will return before you have reached all the towns of Israel.

As the people will vote with their feet, tyranny deceives our hearts with the kind of voting we do with our hands.  As our lowly feet express our hearts, our hands express what we have on our minds.

The function of voting with our hands is a necessary evil.  Indeed, we have no natural born right to vote.  If we did, we would never die.  But many of us don't live long enough to vote in such a fashion.  The legal process depends on our hands.  In turn, our hands manufacture by way of evil doing.  In contrast, the spontaneity of our feet are pure.  The legal process entices equal souls into a courtroom to resolve their differences.  In the end, one will come out richer and the other poorer.  Yet, if souls cannot be destroyed, then it is the law itself that is death.

The people vote with their feet in order to flee evil.  Aren't people today in the United States fleeing towards the state of Texas?  As a born Texan myself, I wouldn't ever want to leave the state.  However, if I am a true Christian, I might have to do so one day.  What states might I flee towards?  Well, I have considered the states of Alaska and North Dakota as good places to flee towards.  In other words, even the state of Texas today is beginning to rot at the core.