Totalitarian law applies to mankind as a species, not to individual behavior.

Evidence

The phenomena addressed by biopolitics are, essentially, aleatory events that occur within a population that exists over a period of time. On this basis—and this 1s, | think, the third important pomt—this technology of power, this biopolitics, will introduce mechanisms with a certain number of functions that are very different from the functions of disciplinary mechanisms. The mechanisms introduced by biopolitics include forecasts, statistical estimates, and overall measures. And their purpose is not to modify any given phenomenon as such, or to modify a given individual insofar as he is an individual, but, essentially, to intervene at the level at which these general phenomena are determined, to intervene at the level of their generality. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 261 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The chief function of the disciplinary power is to ‘train’, rather than to select and to levy; or, no doubt, to train in order to levy and select all the more. It does not link forces together in order to reduce them; it seeks to bind them together in such a way as to multiply and use them. Instead of bending all its subjects into a single uniform mass, it separates, analyses, differentiates, carries its procedures of decomposition to the point of necessary and sufficient single units. It ‘trains’ the moving, confused, useless multitudes of bodies and forces into a multiplicity of individual elements – small, separate cells, organic autonomies, genetic identities and continuities, combinatory segments. Discipline ‘makes’ individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise. It is not a triumphant power, which because of its own excess can pride itself on its omnipotence; it is a modest, suspicious power, which functions as a calculated, but permanent economy. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian rule obeys suprapositive laws of Nature or History while defying all positive laws.; Totalitarian ideology transforms stabilizing law into law as motion; Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264 (+1 more)

Related

• Biopolitics governs populations through statistics, not individuals (similarity 0.84)
• Totalitarian rule obeys suprapositive laws of Nature or History while defying all positive laws. (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian ideology transforms stabilizing law into law as motion (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian ideology transforms stabilizing law into law as motion #expands (0.75)
• Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. #contradicts (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264
• Biopolitics governs populations through statistics, not individuals #corroborates (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 261