[Hemingway's Ghost]

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.

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.

[Zon]

Allowing the government to tresspass into this realm causes much more harm than it does good.

The present anti-civilization is in the Dark Ages compared to civilization thirty to forty years in the future.

[robertpaulsen]

"the answer is to encourage the return to morality, self-respect, and character."

Ideally? Yes.

But until this encouragement sinks in, what? Do we allow this destructive activity to continue, to grow over the years, to become a way of life?

Or do we make it illegal, therby minimizing that activity while sending a message that it will not be tolerated?

I don't like all the laws. I liked the simplicity of life in the 50's. On the other hand, I prefer the laws over the behavior.