Cheers!
Posted on 12/18/2010 8:01:19 AM PST by IbJensen
Webster disagrees with you. Using bad analogies multiple times doesnt make them more true.
Typical FR “God, family and country” fare isn’t it?
Ah, so it's about "controlling" people... in a supposedly free society?? And you're here on FreeRepublic??
"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" means just that, and just as much as "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" means (should mean) just that.
You may not like some libertine individuals' pursuit of happiness any more than they like you keeping and bearing arms. Too bad.
Perhaps you are confusing laws forcing or restraining certain actions from laws forcing attitudes or forcing people to love others.
To put it simply, we have a house "law" that requires our boys to take out the garbage but this house "law" does nothing to make their hearts change so that they want to take out the garbage.
Likewise, we can create laws that ban certain actions but doing so does not change the underlying nature of the person and just like our boys will find a million excuses to avoid taking the garbage out so laws that force people to adopt a behavior will likely fail because their heart is not in it.
Cheers!
“Wilberforce acheived his goal through legislation over the course of his entire career, eventually managing to pass the bill. How is that coercion?”
With respect, all government is force. As Washington said (paraphrasing), it is a fearful master and a dangerous servant.
A bill is coercion of at least some people. Otherwise, the bill wouldn’t do anything.
Women and Men are clearly different.
Visual presentations of Female Surface Anatomy
cause a direct hit to the Endorphin Pathways - in Men
might as well be a narcotic rush
Visual Presentations of Male Surface Anatomy cause
... No response ... in Women
The Genders might as well be Different Species in this regard
Women sort of figure this out - by the age 4
Commanding the consequences of this
is what Adolescence is all about
If one does not learn to command self
the behavior is sub-adult
One might as well be pooping in their diapers
Cheers!
But you forget that the interstate system was proposed under the Eisenhower administration to help in the defense of the country to mobiles troops and supplies. Also, IIRC, originally 1 mile in every 5 was to be straight, so that is could potentially be used as a runway.
Once one builds a road, it is imperative that they maintain it; otherwise you risk injury and death of those who use it.
So highways were partially designed to support self-defense, a moral issue, and their maintenance is to prevent injury and death, also a moral issue.
Pretty much my position.
Do you really want to continue trying to defend sexual degeneracy on Freerepublic discussion threads? I don’t go to Webster’s for affirmation of morality. It is sad that you would. Have you ever heard of the thing called ‘spiritual discernment’?
“Which one of these is not like the other?”
Other than shooting guns, they are not addictive? :)
“Which one of these is not like the other?”
Other than shooting guns, they are not addictive? :)
“Which one of these is not like the other?”
Other than shooting guns, they are not addictive? :)
Yes, but she’s not pretty, so that’s all that counts on a site like FR.
You asked why I thought prostitution was a physical relationship and I told you. Im not using it to affirm my beliefs on anything, other than affirming the definition of a word that you compared to a different word. Have you ever heard of not writing a check you cant cash?
Make sure you wash up afterward... [/duck]
When you grow up, I might continue the discussion ... but that is a big ‘when’ question. Pornography is wholesale prostituting of the people displayed sexually/for sexual excitation or inticement of others.
So you support the left and you are here on God loving, social conservative freerepublic?
You may not like traditional, pre-1960s, pre-leftism, America, but this is the wrong place to push the left’s modern agenda.
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