Actually, that's about the last one.
But there are many behaviors where morality, self-respect, and character used to limit the action. Just about all of the PC laws came about because people were no longer restricted by those virtues and needed a law to stop the behavior.
Laws against swearing, ethnic jokes, workplace harrassment rules up the ying-yang, public school dress codes, on and on.
My point is, many laws today are in place because people are no longer restrained by morality and character. If a man made a lewd comment to a woman, it resulted in a slap. And that was it. Nowadays, both would race to the courthouse to file a suit against the other.
Now, take a previously illegal activity and make it legal, whoa, Katie bar the door. Homosexual sodomy? Go ahead and say you're against it in public.
Relax the pornography laws and Hollywood pushes the envelope -- where's the outrage?
Gambling laws. We've got local casinos, riverboats, state lotteries -- unacceptable? Puh-leeze. Once it's legal, no one touches it.
Nonsense. The fact that various legal constraints have been removed over the past decades disproves your assertion.
I agree with you 100%. However, giving the government the power to make law to govern this sort of behavior isn't the answer: the answer is to encourage the return to morality, self-respect, and character. Because government is a blunt object, and power, once gotten, is rarely, if ever, given up.Allowing the government to tresspass into this realm causes much more harm than it does good.
I see most of the anti War on drug people on this thread do not seem to get it. Maybe it is because Marijuana use dulls the mind and ambition, and makes everything groovy. They claim that there is no harm to recreational use and think it is fine to smoke dope, or crack, or do percoset,xanax, you name it as long as they are not working. This is so sick, it does unfathomable damage to society. They think that there is no harm in getting so stoned you lie in the middle of the road for some poor unsuspecting citizen to accidentally run over and kill, or yeah decriminalize drugs and the next plane you take may be piloted by someone not drunk like in some instances, but stoned out of their minds. Are you going to ask the pilots to tinkle in a cup to analyze before he climbs into the cockpit? How about the train Engineer? How about your 7 year old daughter's school bus driver? How about the man that works in a Nuke Plant? Enough? How about a Police Officer wannabe Security Guard with a gun? Without Drugs being illegal and felonies, you cannot punish anyone. How about the President of the United states like a dope smoking Algore with their hand close to the Nuclear Button? People who do drugs should not be anywhere in society but curled up in their little beddy bye with their blankie. People that do not do drugs are clear headed, and can tell when someone is stoned in a heartbeat. If you are stoned, or a "little" high you do not see things clearly at all,and people laugh at you because you sound like you have Alzheimer's disease because you repeat yourself and forget whatever the hell you were talking about. In the workplace, you have no ambition except to get home to get high again and you think this is recreational. In that same workplace others see what a yutz you are but feel sorry for a poor doper, and do some of your neglected work for you,but eventually the Boss finds out and you are gone. You are supposed to babysit your infant son while your wife shops, and instead smoke dope and fall asleep, and what happens to your baby? Enough...................denial is not a River in Egypt.
The Founders recognized that people should live their lives largely free of federal interference. This is not to say that the Founders intended or imagined a libertine America. On the contrary, they envisioned an America with vibrant religious, family, social, and civic institutions that would shape a moral nation. They understood that strong private institutions, so important in a free and just society, could not coexist with a strong, centralized government.-Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
Gambling laws.
Gambling is not an immoral activity.