Pharoz

Some of the main issues around such database systems are about who has access, how far the databases go (do they even get to see items scanned at a supermarket and paid for by credit card, the times and places that a car eTag was read, etc), whether the person involved has any say in what is recorded and even systematic fraud.

Religions are socially constructed and to an extent even the concept of God is also socially constructed (although that still means that it is beyond any one person to fathom the full extent of the idea of God over the past, present and future or even in any one moment).

A new interpretation does not change the text that is interpreted. Furthermore, something that we interpret in a certain way today, and our responses to this, may be interpreted in a different way in the future, as in a few hundred years.

A common symbol of the feminine from other cultures is the moon, and how it waxes and wans between the new and full moon in a regular cycle. It’s not that you could say the feminine is good like a dove or bad at times, it is more that the feminine is indifferent at times to people’s hopes and fears.

Anyway, an ideal such as the rule of law combined with human rights is something that can not be corrupted, it will not age and can be long lasting, and such an ideal is something that can be universally argued for apart from any particular religion or culture. A proposed rule of iron can instead become a rule of law with human rights.