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To: little jeremiah
If you don't like abortion, don't have one.

Abortion harms the rights of the unborn child. Not comparable to "sleaze."

If you don't like methamphetimine, don't smoke/inject/snort it.

I agree. It is not the government's job to protect people from their own stupidity.

If you don't like spousal abuse, don't practice it.

Assaulting another person is a violation of their rights. Government has been granted the power to protect rights. Again, not comparable.

If you don't like porn shops on the road where your kids walk to school, have them walk a different route.

There is no right not to be offended by the sight of legal businesses that you dissaprove of. Should a Mormon have the right to demand that their children not be exposed to the sight of liquor stores? Do Jews have the right to demand that their kids not be exposed to the sight of a pig roast?

Even if, for instance, one set of parents carefully monitor what their kids watch, a bunch of other kids don't have such careful parents.

And the solution to this is what? More government control over how parents raise their kids?

72 posted on 06/16/2005 8:28:52 AM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
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To: Modernman

I addressed your arguments in another comment. The fact is that a debased cultural climate, driven by moneyed interests (as in Hollywood and pornographers - but I repeat myself) and leftists - as in the ACLU and a bunch of judges, including some on the SCOTUS - affects everyone.

It is not easy, and in fact virtually impossible, for parents to protect their children from the pervasive cultural climate of acceptance and indeed, glorification of immorality.

When moneyed interests, leftists, and moral relativists (who aren't relative at all) have determined to turn the whole world into a dump, those of us living in the dump are affected by the atmosphere.


83 posted on 06/16/2005 9:43:54 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it.)
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