Instruction must be grounded in a decent understanding of underlying realities. One should be able to locate what one learns within one's own worldview, so one can take what one learns and apply it to the unique conditions of one's own life. Otherwise what one learns is merely the word of the instructor, which requires an authoritarian leader and follower personalities. Instruction must be maintained as an institution, separated from the processes that the lessons describe. Who is to maintain the institution? Who is to gatekeep what is proper instruction and application?
Similarly, if you have to force someone to respect life, whether through threat of punishment or some type of sanction, you have already lost something; you have started an artificial chain, predicated on the word of others. The other will internalize that value system and pass it on. Authority and punishment becomes the reason for doing or not doing something. Of course sometimes this divorce from bare necessity, this human system that becomes suspended is quite necessary, and must be maintained just like any other human structure.
