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To: OneWingedShark

Just responsible I guess. Too bad there aren’t more of us.


73 posted on 01/21/2015 11:02:50 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator
No, being responsible is not drinking and driving.
The state forcibly enforcing it is the sort of thing that CS Lewis was talking about here:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
There's also something to be said about the morality of laws which punish things that are often called victimless crimes — that is where no person was harmed physically, monetarily, etc — the system you espouse raises all men to accountability under the faceless government, unable to face his accuser because his accuser is the state, and that is a dangerous spot especially where the state can essentially change venues (that is the charges) for the same act when they are [occasionally] thwarted by the Jury.
74 posted on 01/21/2015 12:16:06 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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