The Rule of Law in China

The Rule of Law goes like this: When the law is supreme, the evil doers pay, and the righteous succeeed. This is summarily not true at all. In fact, everyone pays. We all pay for the rule of law. I believe, strongly, that law is a human capacity worth affecting. It is valuable to create rules, to pursue right, and to make our ends righteous and good. I think that law accomplishes this, but at great cost, and at great sacrifice of freedom. Pursuiing human freedom always comes at a cost. The more we perfect one freedom, the less we have others. Confucious has a great saying about a man who lost his whole kingdom for want of a horse shoe. That's a lot like freedom, when we perfect human rights down to a science we lose many other essoteric freedoms, like family, happiness, autonomy.