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To: rlmorel
If the public ordinances (supposedly put in place by people we elect) decree that malls close at 23:00, then if we disagree with that prdianance, we can work to change it through established mechanisms. If we fail to change anyone’s mind, we have three choices: Live with it, break the law, or move to another locality that has different ordinances or no ordinances.

Seems that fewer people means fewer laws, ordinances, and police. I live in a town with around 150 people. We have a county cop roll through town maybe one a week, we burn brush in our yards, do a surprising amount of construction without permits. We do pretty much as we please because we hold to certain societal standards that don't impede or offend our neighbors to any intolerable extent. Frankly, I like hearing the church bell every sunday morning.
67 posted on 10/27/2011 10:03:03 AM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: cripplecreek

And that is perfectly acceptable. That is the way it should be. It highlights one of the reasons that out of control Federalism (as we have now) cannot coexist with healty state rights. If I hate the area I live in due to the local ordinances, I can simply move to another town or state like yours, where people are allowed to live and are expected to be considerate towards others. Like kudzu weeds, an overbearing Federalism chokes that out, using things like the federal highway funds that you only get if you adhere to certain federal standards. They use that as a cudgel to trample and wither states rights.

Where you live, everyone has standards that are somewhat on the same page (moral standards, oh, the horror)and those standards seem to have a built in respect for other people.

Liberals abhor standards of any kind, particularly moral ones, because it sets a bar for people to aspire to.

To liberals, if you don’t live up to your standards, you are a hypocrite...to liberals, the worst malediction that can be applied is the charge of hypocrisy. To them it is worse than any violation of all the Ten Commandments rolled into one. (Conservatives generally understand that humans are fallible, and as such, do not always live up to our standards...but when you fail, you dust yourself off and try harder to meet them.)

That is why liberals have no moral standards (they can never fail to meet them and thus be accused of hypocrisy)

Because they have no standards, any and all primitive Roussouian behavior is fair play to them, no matter how depraved, immoral or inconsiderate.

It is why many places DO have ordinances against making noise after 2200, requirements and permits for assembly, and so on.

They can’t be trusted to adhere to civilized standards of behavior, so everything has to be spelled out in rule books such at the damned Federal Register and town ordinances.

It is why we have to have dress codes at work and policy and procedure manuals that run into the thousands of pages.

All because of liberalism. You are not allow to simply use your brain and common sense to guide behavior, because idiot liberals have neither of them.


83 posted on 10/27/2011 10:21:57 AM PDT by rlmorel (9/11: Aggression is attracted to weakness like sharks are to blood, and we were weak. We still are.)
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