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To: bassmaner
... Communism is alive and well, and the main weapon that it's using to destroy our way of life from within is the poison of "political correctness".

We note your failure to mention the poison of drugs, pornography, promiscuity, perversion, prostitution, sodomy, homosexuality, and abortion.

37 posted on 02/03/2002 10:49:00 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
We note your failure to mention the poison of drugs, pornography, promiscuity, perversion, prostitution, sodomy, homosexuality, and abortion.

All the things you mentioned are vices -- unfortunate components of human nature that have existed since time immemorial, and which civilized, responsible people avoid based on their own inherent morality. In a truly free society (such as our own republic once was), people would have the right to indulge in such self-destructive behavior as long as they only harm themselves, and have to personally deal with the consequences (including ostracism from civil society). Or, if they have a strong personal moral compass, they can choose to live a morally upright life as responsible members of the community, and eschew the aforementioned vices.

Alas, in today's world, it's not the case.

Self-appointed guardians of public morals (like yourself) advocate the imposition of society's most onerous sanction short of execution - incarceration - for anyone who doesn't eschew the vices. No choices, just brute-force coercion: "if you poor immoral slobs don't play by our rules, we'll throw you in a cage with really nasty people".

This is a tactic much loved and favored by Communists the world over. Stalin loaded his gulags with so-called "enemies of the people", whose only "crime" was the thinking of politically-incorrect thoughts. And it has taken root in America - starting early in the 20th century with the insane attempt to outlaw alcohol, and continuing with today's equally insane attempt to outlaw other politically-incorrect mind-altering substances.

Legislation of public morals sets the same paradigm as Communism. Just like Communism, it overwhelmingly affects citizens who are not sociopathic, but simply choose to follow a different drummer. Also, like Communism, it poisons civil society by empowering the real sociopaths among us that prey upon those who are morally weak. That's why I didn't mention those things.

40 posted on 02/05/2002 9:14:49 AM PST by bassmaner
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