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To this list, we might add Government, concerned with the organization of some or all of the other professions. A possible seventh is Exploration, concerned with the expansion of our domain and relying heavily on the other professions. These professions are those essential to human society and their advancement constitutes fundamental advancement of the society as a whole. Art and science inform every facet of these professions and are important in this context because some other human endeavors, while falling outside these professions, are generally held to have great value, namely the fine arts and what we usually call science; that is research and development. And it would be impossible for society to exist at all except by the contributions of people who actually do work.

Government is problematic as a profession because it doesn't really do anything except by means of the other professions. In fact, the only thing essential to a government is the force of arms to maintain its status. Such a "government" would exist solely for its own leisure, caring not even to promulgate much less enforce laws to govern its thralls' relationships to one another. Indeed, even the most primitive bands of humans existed within the framework of law; certainly unwritten and sometimes capricious, but law nonetheless.

As an example, the current US government tightly controls the professions of arms and law, ensures a modicum of education and some medical care for most, and hardly delves at all into spiritual matters. This is not a judgment of the value of this society, simply an objective statement of its status. It is up to the individual to decide the worth of it.

Arms

Law

Medicine

Education

the Priesthood