The Idea of Individual Sovereignty

Every human being has something divine in them that needs to be regarded with respect. That's a magnificent, remarkable, crazy idea, and yet we developed it as the base of our legal system. And so if you're going to take that idea seriously, then, which you do, because you act it out, otherwise you wouldn't be law abiding citizens,. You act that idea out. The question is, why in the world do you believe it? Assuming that you believe what you act out, which i think is a really good way of fundamentally defining belief. It took us a long time to figure out the word consciousness. Who knows how many thousands of years who's like it?"