A lot of truth in your statements too. Morality can only be achieved by the citizen on an individual basis. A nation of immoral people is doomed; using the government to try to enforce morality only delays the inevitable.
A nation of immoral people is doomed; using the government to try to enforce morality only delays the inevitable.
I would assume that delaying the inevitable doom is preferable to being doomed now.
The Law of Unintended Consequences is well established and all but proven in my mind. We see it over and over again. Speed restrictions on highways that increase accident rates, CAFE legislation that decreases fleet milage, public schools that prevent kids from learning, tax policy that stifles commercial activity and decreases revenues... and the list goes on and on. It has become a truism that whatever the government tries to do, they wind up doing the exact opposite by accident.
And yet "social consevatives" want to harness this power in order to enforce morality, and expect to get the results they desire. Instead, they wind up supplanting morals-friendly social networks and acheive the exact opposite of what they intended.
This should come as no surprise.