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Gimme a BREAK, Preacherman!

1.) People WILL have the government they want - or at least, the government they are willing to tolerate.
NO GOVERNMENT, anywhere, has survived ONE MINUTE LONGER than the amount of time the citizens of that nation have accepted the government they have. Either in a democratic republic, with elected, representative government, they were voted in or out; or, in a totalitarian, dictatorial government, they were ousted via revolution. When the PEOPLE decide they want a change, they WILL have change. One way or another. PERIOD. So don't talk to me about ANY government taking over and dominating our lives. When WE want a new government, we'll get it. Never doubt that, sir.
2.) YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE MORALITY. Well, you can LEGISLATE it, but you can't successfully ENFORCE that legislation. If people want booze, they'll get it, one way or another. IF people want to gamble, they'll gamble, one way or another. IF people want drugs, one way or another, they'll get them. IF people want porno, one way or another, they'll get it.
IF people want religion, one way or another, they'll get it. IF people want scientific ignorance, one way or another, they'll get it.
The ONLY WAY to get what any group considers "Moral rightness" is for that group to EDUCATE their children and themselves in what THEY consider "morality".
AND, that group will have to understand that if what THEY consider "morality" doesn't coincide with what I consider "morality", they'll play Holy HELL enforcing it on ME.
Unless they have a bigger gun.
Because in the long run, they cannot DICTATE what I (not I personally, but "I" as in someone other than "THEM") believe, maintain, or follow as a personal creed.
You cannot dictate to a free man. You cannot chain a free man. You cannot restrict a free man. The most you can do is kill him - a which time, he is still free, at least of you.
So, dear Sir, techboy_z, take YOUR "sad moral decline" and go away. I HAVE a moral code, which I live by. It may or may NOT be compatible with yours - but SO LONG AS I DON'T HARM YOU, physically or mentally, what I do is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
And that, sir, is TRUE morality. Or as Eric Frank Russell once put it in one of his great stories,
"MYOB."

See ya!

Posted by: jkratzer3   Posted on: 05/23/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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