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To: ChildOfThe60s

“I don’t have the “legal” right to do a lot of things. However, I consider my moral rights to be superior to flawed laws.”

Funny you should put it that way. I’d expect someone on the Daily Kos to express their right to anarchy that way, not someone on FR.


123 posted on 05/09/2007 7:58:10 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Rembrandt
Funny you should put it that way. I’d expect someone on the Daily Kos to express their right to anarchy that way, not someone on FR.

Oh, please. Anarchy?

KOS'ers don't have a clue what morals are.

Having confidence in my moral beliefs is certainly not expressing any sort of "right to anarchy", nor even a suggestion of it. If you consider your morals and moral beliefs to be of less value than (often arbitrary) government laws, then your morals are on pretty soft ground.

Those that advocate and promote anarchy have no morals.

I obey a lot of laws that I don't necessarily agree with, in part because without laws we would have anarchy. But that certainly doesn't mean that I have to subjugate my morals to those laws. Or to believe that because I must obey laws that they are automatically morally superior to my moral beliefs.

Laws are often based on keeping order, not on a sense of fairness or morality. And especially not on justice.

Indeed, it seems to me that to suggest morality is inferior to the law, is to promote the notion of the "goodness" of government. In other words, socialism.

124 posted on 05/09/2007 8:44:05 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there)
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