Zephyros
regardless .... there are going to be 'troublemakers and disrupters' .... they have to be dealt with somehow ... and I certainly do not approve with current methods ( a smack on the wrist and a stern look).
But always back to Will. I find it significant that in the text Aeon quoted Crowley doesn't actually define what crime is, and Duty also somehow skirts the issue and says that crime is interfering with another's Will (or something to that effect). How society defines troublemakers Osirianly perhaps isn't how it defines them Horusly. Many people in jail today, especially in the US, are people who committed a crime that hurts no one and may even be a stepping stone toward their Wills, namely, "strange drugs" in the form of marijuana. On the other hand, people who were directly responsible for the 2008 crash were never penalized, although it could be argued that they interfered with billions of peoples' Wills. If it is someone's Will to become a dictator, and another's to resist him, who is the troublemaker? Maybe people who commit "real" crimes such as murder would be better taken care of if society's attitude towards lighter, non-Will-interfering offenses were dealt with differently.
In any case, my view towards this is the same as any, separation of faith and State, and freedom and sanctity of the individual. Thelema may afford a certain point of view, but the way it is directly applied, especially on matters of policy, changes dramatically, depending on locale and society, and the system in place now that is developed through discourse, trial and error, is preferable to any other. Besides, it could be argued that if anyone goes off orbit, he will himself suffer the consequences of his actions by "the most puissant forces in the universe." Even Ezekiel recognized that the punishment for some sins is that the man "shall surely die," meaning that God himself would punish him, not a temporal form of justice which, it could be argued, man isn't equipped to deal with (such as interfering with another's Will by carrying out a death penalty)