Every single person in this world has some degree of power, of which, how much power a given individual so has, ranges from one extreme to the other. So that, even those that claim that they have no power, whatsoever, have power, if perhaps only in a negatory power, such as in their refusal to do something, or to give the illusion of doing something, when they are not actually doing so, and so on and so forth. Then, of course, there is that type of seemingly absolute power, in which other people’s lives, livelihood, and freedom rests in the hands of some authority to do whatever that they so desire to do.
So then, discretionary power is part and parcel of the human experience in this world. Some people would have us to believe, that discretionary power, isn’t fair, or isn’t right, or shouldn’t really be allowed; or in other words, they wish for the considerable reduction of discretionary power, to be replaced quite obviously by cut and dry rules, that would be absolutely consistent, of which, these rules then would give no ground. The problem with a lack of discretionary power is that the less discretionary power, that there is so available, for the person or entity to utilize or to forsake, the more that humankind devolves into nothing much more than automatons, and thereby the massive reduction of their free will. Those then, that do not have free will, have no discretionary power, and to believe therefore that the ideal world is an environment in which there is no discretionary power, necessitates that there would be no free will, which pretty much makes this world, nothing much more than a playground for that who created it, and no doubt, something that could not conceivably maintain that creator’s interest for any sustainable period of time.
Rather, of far more interest and of far more drama, is a world in which those so created upon it, have free will and therefore they have discretionary power, and thereby they use such power, per their own volition, for better or for worse. The beauty of this system, is that it permits those that are the players of it, to spread their wings, so to speak, and those that are most curious, the most engaged, and the most dedicated to the principle of the greater good will eventually figure out, that the best use of discretionary power is to consistently do the right thing, rather than to be self-serving, mean, or destructive.
Each of us, no matter our particular station in life, have the power to lend a helping hand, or to remove such a hand, or to use such a hand in a hurtful way. That is the power so granted to us all, of which, those that are the wisest, see the value of doing good, because by doing so, it helps to enlighten those that are in the darkness, so that they too, can do good, and thereby, when like minds join together, it makes for that which was the intent in the first place – which is to grant free will to all so created, and for that who is the Creator to delight in seeing its children use such valuable gifts, well.