<i>Indeed, it is the purpose of a court to follow due process, but not of a private entity.</i><p>Laws and courts constitute a minimum or a &quot;floor&quot; standard for civic and commercial behavior. A society that has due process in its laws and on its books, but whose civic and commercial institutions all exhibit draconian knee-jerk behaviors is succeeding at being benevolent and just to the same extent that the Jim Crow south enfranchised black people. The comparison is unpleasant, but it is operationally correct. Laws on the books are only a skeleton. Values and principles have to be enacted by the flesh of civic and commercial society to be meaningful to people.<p>The values embodied by the laws on the books have also to be alive in civic society, or else they are not truly meaningful. It&#x27;s not enough for only the government and courts to embody humanist and democratic values. Civic and commercial society has to embody them too. (Ask yourself, are you a part of civic and commercial institutions and intellectual movements that embody humanist and democratic values? Or are they authoritarian and withhold justice and free speech from those the group deems &quot;unworthy?&quot;)