Laws don’t save societies. A moral and upright people save societies.
A proliferation of laws is what you get when you don’t have a moral and upright people.
No truer words have been posted on FR.
I used to go to “music in the park” in Kent, WA and Mercer Island, WA.
Mercer island is extremely expensive (Paul Allen lives there, Michael Medved lives there, Obama used to live there and I lived there), whereas kent is staunch middle class. I used to live there too.
In kent, there were no alcoholic beverages allowed. Cops would walk through the crowd checking, sometimes taking action. People would hide bottles in brown paper bags. People would bring McDonalds, KFC, Pizza, etc. When the event was over, it was reminiscent of the aftermath of Woodstock.
In Mercer Island, people would drink wine out of their Baccarat crystal wine glasses, or microbrews from the bottle and sometimes from glasses. There was a lot of salami and cheese and crackers as well as a few KFC buckets. Cops would walk through and technically the alcohol was illegal, but everybody knew it was ok as long as everybody was adult about it, which they were. When the event was over, there would be a couple of kids playing with frisbees, but other than that, you would never know an event had happened.
Culture is everything. We need to get back to a Mercer Island style mindset, and on an individual level. Otherwise, we are in for some very tough times.
You get a proliferation of laws even over moral and upright people when the lefz5yujtist uber present controllers are in power.
Post of the Day. Well done!
Societal corruption flows downward, not upward. Society didn’t remove the Ten Commandments from public schools or attempt to replace fathers with a government check. The blames rests with the Left, whose hundred-year jihad against all that is good and decent, against the civil society that republics require, has just about run its course.
Very true.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798 John Adams
“A proliferation of laws is what you get when you don’t have a moral and upright people.”
Laws are a general guideline, but when you have too many it is for one of two purposes: 1) because (as you said) the people aren’t moral enough to know right from wrong; or 2) because the people at the top want to control the rest of society.
“A moral and upright people “
Because no one is carrying anymore.
POTD!