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To: highball
That's just silly. If "somebone's morals" are your criteria for writing law, you'll get all sorts of goofy laws.

Defining a law as 'goofy' is a subjective view. Is 'goofy' good or bad? By your post, one could easily assume you believe it to be bad, which is a moral judgment.

Thank you for proving my point, even though you didn't mean to do so.

272 posted on 10/26/2005 5:52:58 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody
Defining a law as 'goofy' is a subjective view.

That was exactly my point. Laws based solely on morality are inherently subjective. I think the wearing of plaids and stripes ought to be a crime. Actually criminalizing it, however, is bad policy.

Actions should not be criminialized just because you don't want to do them.

Give the government control over some aspects of other peoples' lives, and it'll sieze control of yours. I'm surprised that so many people who call themselves "conservatives" forget that.

274 posted on 10/26/2005 7:10:05 AM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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