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A female professor who occupied a tangential supervisory position vis-a-vis my unworthy self once told me that morality canot be controlled by laws, the subject being abortion. I reminded her that in spite of this being true, certain acts are routinely prohibited by law, which amounts to legislating behavior. There was no response.
We are seeing the results of the moral relativism that is being promulgated in our society....
Great article, obviously written by a young person. It’s good to see so many of the young’uns coming over to the prolife side.
Legislating morality is done all the time. You rightly bring up rape, murder,... Legislating morality also includes whether you can marry your: brother/sister, mother/dad, first cousin, aunt/uncle, grandparent, etc. It would include whether you marry one (or more) of each, or an animal... The list is endless. When one states that we can not legislate morality they have not thought the issue through.
Excellent argument.
After all it is HER body, right?
Ask them why two adopted siblings with no blood relation are prohibited from marrying when they reach adulthood.
Ask them why low flow toilets and low wattage lightbulbs have been imposed on this once proud and free nation.
Should a mother be permitted to dope and drink while she's pregnant? It's her body, after all. Except that her body ends at the umbilical cord. That is one or more unique persons attached to the other end. The father is accountable to that baby for the next 18 years. The mother could at least hold the same responsibility.
They don’t want to legislate morality? Could have fooled me. They really don’t want any morality. I prefer to thank them for Obamacare’s requirement for a federal medical record database. With that they have legislated away the “privacy” that was decided in Roe. In other words they have legislated away Roe.
That usually makes their head explode....
Seriously, people are going to steal cars regardless, so we should legalise auto theft!
Last election cycle a nitwit wrote an essay in our university’s student paper applying the same illogic to presidential choices: that one shouldn’t consider morality in choosing for whom one will vote.
It is the only time I’ve ever been moved to write a letter to the editor of the student paper, which began
It is not usually my custom to comment on student editorials, but when the stunning idiocy (and I use that word in both its classical and modern senses) of [name and title of article] evinced the reaction of C.S. Lewis’s fictional Professor Kirk—“What do they teach them in these schools?”—the realization that in the final instance, ‘these schools’ is this university prompts me to write. Is it really the case that one can acquire three-fourths of a [university name] education (and majoring in Journalism, a field not distant from politics) without understanding that all political decisions are fundamentally moral decisions?
The letter was warmly greeted both by colleagues on the right (there are a surprising number in my department) and the left (including a liberal protestant campus minister).
And the reverse follows too, but the Leftists don't have to play by their own rules.
Fifty million dead children and counting.
Libertarianism is NOT the absence of laws.
That would be anarchy.
Libertarianism has many laws, especially those related to the defrauding, injury, or imperiling others.
However there are not laws regarding regualtion or abrogation of property rights or individual liberty or vice.
The killing of innocent unborn is not a tennant of libertarinaism since it removes the one absolute individual right. The right to life.
“You can’t” (or for that matter, can) “legislate morality” is of course a half truth. A system that attempted to legislate what drawer you put your socks in would be big-time dysfunctional.
Those who say you can’t legislate morality will still complain if their car is stolen
I dislike mad libs...especially the Occupy kind.
I dislike mad libs...especially the Occupy kind.
I dislike mad libs...especially the Occupy kind.