“Law and Order” vs. “Honor and Justice"

 

The Impossible Dream

This is my quest, to follow that star
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
To be willing to give when there's no more to give
To be willing to die so that honor and justice may live.

“Law and Order” may only mean supporting the existing system.

We have elections to determine who controls the government, i.e. the system.  “Law and Order” supports those who control the existing system.  “Honor and Justice” supports the system, no matter who controls it. 

If there are protests against the system, those may not be supporting “Law and Order.”  However if those protests are on behalf of “Honor and Justice”, isn’t that  better than supporting “Law and Order”.

It brings to mind the opposition to protests when I was young as “My country, right or wrong”.  The best response that I remember agreed with that statement, but acknowledged that it was incomplete.  ”My country, right or wrong.  If it is right, keep it right.  If it is wrong, make it right."  That is supporting “Honor and Justice”, even if it is not supporting “Law and Order”.