FEAR Is The Prison Of The Mind

This Post is hereby dedicated and directed to our dear and trusted Brother, Mark Schumacher, who has apparently failed to understand the long-accepted concepts known as Liberty of Conscience and Equality of Right as applied to frank and sincere Differences of Opinion … there being no Trespass that I can see and no Common Judge among us at this time!

Accordingly, when Mark can die for us then he can demand or compel all to yield to his Opinions … if he must pick up his Shovel and Pail, run away and refuse to play in this Sandbox then he effectively admits to his own immaturity, or insecurity (in my Humble Opinion and without Dishonor)!  

You will frankly and sincerely be missed, and personally I pray you reconsider such a hasty counsel … Dear Bro !!!

Fear. Criminal law. Dread, consciousness of approaching danger. Fear in the person robbed is one of the ingredients required to constitute a robbery from the person, and without this the felonious taking of the property is a larceny. It is not necessary that the owner of the property should be in fear of his own person, but fear of violence to the person or his child; 2 East, P. C. 718; or of his property; Id. 731 2 Russ. 72; is sufficient. 2 Russ. 71 to 90. Vide:Putting in fear, and Ayl. Pand. tit. 12, p. 106.; Dig. 4, 2, 3 and 6. Cf. Apprehension of harm; dread; consciousness of approaching danger; Duty to retreat; False Evidence Appearing Real; Mental response to threat; Profound reverence and awe; Shoch and awe; Threat; Vi metuque;

Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 175 (When duress by threat makes a contract voidable) cmt (b) (No reasonable alternative) (A threat, even if improper, does not amount to duress if the victim has a reasonable alternative to succumbing and fails to take advantage of it. It is sometimes said that the threat must arouse such fear as precludes a party from exercising free will and judgment or that it must be such as would induce assent on the part of a brave man or a man of ordinary firmness. The rule stated in this Section omits any such requirement because of its vagueness and impracticability. It is enough if the threat actually induces assent (see Comment c) on the part of one who has no reasonable alternative. The standard is a practical one under which account must be taken of the exigencies in which the victim finds himself, and the mere availability of a legal remedy is not controlling if it will not afford effective relief to one in the victim’s circumstances.);

Consent makes the law {Consensus facit legem};

In Roman law, the regulation of justifiable defense {Moderamen inculpatæ tutelæ};

Nothing is so opposed to consent as fear and force {Nil consensui tam contrarium est quam vis atque metus; Dig. 50. 17. 116};

He does not appear to have retained his consent, who has changed any thing at the command of a party threatening {Non videtur consensum retinuisse si quis ex præscripto minantis aliquid immutavit};

You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide {Ouvrez donc les yeux};

Those fears are to be esteemed vain which do not affect a firm man {Qui non cadunt in constantem virum vani timores sunt æstimandi};

They who fear, take care and avoid {Qui timent, cavent vitant};

What is otherwise good and just, if sought by force or fraud, becomes bad and unjust {Quod alias bonum et justum est, si per vim vel fraudem petatur, malum et injustum efficitur};

If those are better who are led by love, those are the greater number who are corrected by fear {Si meliores sunt quos ducit amor, plures sunt quos corrigit timor; Co. Litt. 392};

Fears which do not affect a brave man are vain {Timores vani sunt æstimandi qui non cadunt in constantem virum};

Damage suffered by consent is not a cause of action {Volenti non fit injuria};

Fear and force:

Called also “vi metuque” means that any contract or act extorted under the pressure of force (vis) or under the influence of fear (metus) is voidable on that ground, provided, of course, the force or the fear was such as influenced the party. (Black’s 4th pg. 580);

Quia timet. Because he fears or apprehends. In equity practice, the technical name of a bill filed by a party who seeks the aid of a court of equity, because he fears some future probable injury to his rights or interest, and relief granted must depend upon circumstances.

Vi metuque. Fear and force.

“Good Government is not intrusive, the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.” — Lao-Tzu [Li Erh] (570-490 BC) ‘Old Sage’, Father of Taoism:
Source: Tao Te Ching http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Lao-Tzu.Quote.73D7