The part that interested me most in this entire chapter was the one that was sadly barely mentioned or reflected on. This was not the precepts but the reasoning for why they exist and how this is so different from our society at the moment. In Buddhism, precepts are seen as guidelines that will help you follow a life in which you will be happy and healthy. The guidelines are followed out of free will instead of being followed by fear of the consequences that will happen if they are broken. The precepts and their goal is the complete opposite of our society because in the legal system, in…