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To: B-Chan
The point is that there should be no goon squads and no enforcement of anyone's private morals.
123 posted on 06/28/2003 8:45:58 AM PDT by cherrycapital
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To: cherrycapital
My point is that there should be no goon squads and no enforcement of anyone's private morals.

And my point is that there are always goon squads enforcing somebody's morals, no matter what -- because, in the end, that is precisely what government is. Man is by nature a political animal; the Marxist/libertarian fantasy of the "withering away of the state" is just that -- a fantasy -- because such theories ignore human nature and history and replace them with ideological models of how people ought to behave. History and human nature tell us that men cannot live in society without government, and since in essence all government comes down to goon squads enforcing morals, the only real question is: who will control the goon squads, and which "morality" will they enforce?

I choose Judeo-Christian morality -- the one that insists that human life is special, sacred, and created by a personal God Who has established an absolute moral Law by which we are to live. Unfortunately, what we're going to get is the pagan ethos -- where humans are just big-brained apes living in a natural world, where individual freedom and sensual pleasure are the highest goods, and "do as thou wilt" shall be the whole of the Law.

We are substituting the Nitzschean will to power for the Will of God -- and we will pay dearly for the mistake!

479 posted on 06/28/2003 2:48:09 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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