Law frees interactions from face-to-face control, enabling unconsidered specialist conduct

Evidence

To be sure, the organs bind each group element to themselves and thus to one another; but the decisive point is that the direct interactions that preceded this system drew the totality of a human being into special achievements that required disproportionate expenditures of energy. He who is not a judge for his whole life long, but only when the community is called together, not only is inhibited in his actual functioning, but is also encumbered in the execution of the judicial office by inappropriate conceptions and interests, in a manner entirely different from the professional judge. In contrast, he is only involved with the court in an advanced situation when his whole interest is really engaged in it. As long as each head of a household is a priest, he must function in that capacity whether he feels like it or not; but once there is a church with a professional priest, he enters it only when he feels the urge and thus really has his heart in it. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 708 (#expands, via linked claim)

On the naked body of a giant discovered in a crevice in the ground, Gyges, a Lydian shepherd, by chance found a gold ring that made him invisible. Confident in his new power and sure that he would escape the watchful eyes of men, he multiplied his misdeeds, killed the king, and seized the throne with impunity. His enemies could neither avoid his attacks nor defend themselves against him. Invisibility conferred upon him a kind of invulnerability. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 342 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Functional differentiation frees individuals from role-dictated behavior — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 708; Invisibility from retaliation confers power to act with impunity. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 342; Doctrine alone does not change behavior without enforcement and transmission — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4011 (+1 more)

Related

• Functional differentiation frees individuals from role-dictated behavior (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Functional differentiation frees individuals from role-dictated behavior #expands (0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 708
• Invisibility from retaliation confers power to act with impunity. #expands (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 342