So, basically, that people-not-from-my-tribe should not be “outlaws” (in the original sense of “outside of the law”)? Essentially, you are talking about the idea of law which covers everyone regardless of who/what they are?
Not just that—instead of just having relations between people shake out under a neutral law, it’s assumed that the government can achieve something better than neutrality.
So, basically, that people-not-from-my-tribe should not be “outlaws” (in the original sense of “outside of the law”)? Essentially, you are talking about the idea of law which covers everyone regardless of who/what they are?
Not just that—instead of just having relations between people shake out under a neutral law, it’s assumed that the government can achieve something better than neutrality.
In the general case, what is “better than neutrality”?
I don’t know whether there is anything better than neutrality, but a great many people seem to think there is.