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Opinion

The first stage of the process of making a law consists of a Lawmaker forming an opinion with regard to conduct flowing from a Source to a Recipient through circumstances. The Lawmaker forms an opinion about both polarities of a flow of conduct. A broad focused Lawmaker can form the following opinions:
  1. holds a desire for affirmative conduct
  2. lacks a desire for affirmative conduct
  3. lacks a desire for negative conduct
  4. holds a desire for negative conduct
The opinions can be rewritten if the focus of the Lawmaker narrows to a Source doing conduct or a Recipient receiving conduct.
If the focus of a Lawmaker is narrowed to a Source, the opinions would look like
  1. holds a desire for a Source to do affirmative conduct
  2. lacks a desire for a Source to do affirmative conduct
  3. lacks a desire for a Source to do negative conduct
  4. holds a desire for a Source to do negative conduct
If the focus of a Lawmaker is narrowed to a Recipient, the opinions would look like
  1. holds a desire for a Recipient to receive affirmative conduct
  2. lacks a desire for a Recipient to receive affirmative conduct
  3. lacks a desire for a Recipient to receive negative conduct
  4. holds a desire for a Recipient to receive negative conduct
To have a permutation of a law, a Lawmaker must form an opinion about each of the polarities of conduct. A desire for affirmative conduct and a lack of desire for negative conduct constitute Affirmative Regulation. A lack of desire for affirmative conduct and a lack of desire for negative conduct constitute Deregulation. A desire for negative conduct and a lack of desire for affirmative conduct constitute Negative Regulation.
A legal thinker looks at both permutations of a law serially, i.e., first one then the other. The detection of the presence of a desire when looking at the first permutation is unambiguous. It definitively indicates Regulation. Why? A desire for one polarity of conduct and a desire for the other polarity of conduct cannot coexist. They are like matter and anti-matter. A Lawmaker cannot want you to do something and simultaneously want you to not do something. The absence of a desire, however, is ambiguous. The absence of a desire can coexist with both the presence of a desire and the absence of a desire for the opposite polarity. Hence, both polarities must be scrutinized when an absence of desire is first detected in order to determine the permutation of a law.

Or

'OR' is a conjunction of Deregulation joining together affirmative conduct and negative conduct and indicating that both permutations of conduct are available to a Source doing conduct.

Permission

A permission is a vehicle that carries a Lawmaker's opinion to the citizenry. It is used when the focus of a Lawmaker is broad upon all of the conduct flowing from Source to Recipient through circumstances. It is synonymous with a privilege (no-duty) and a no-right, which are vehicles used when a Lawmaker narrows her focus. A permission, a privilege (no-duty) and a no-right are the three vehicles of Deregulation. It means that a Lawmaker lacks a desire for affirmative conduct and a Lawmaker lacks a desire for negative conduct.

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Source:  OpenStax, A unified theory of a law. OpenStax CNX. Mar 25, 2011 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10670/1.106
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