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To: Jaded
Just because you and I have higher standards of behavior doesn't make us the arbiter of community standards of reasonable and prudent.

It doesn't? Well, that is what is wrong with this country and in my opinion one of the reasons why a little girl named Danielle is not sitting in her kitchen writing in her journal this very day. Certain parents didn't seem to think (or care) that anyone noticed that they had a swinging, dope smoking lifestyle. Perhaps if someone told them that what they were doing was wrong and harmful to their children they might have stopped. We shouldn't depend on preachers, priests or politicians to model how we all should live. We need to set the example for our children, families, friends and even Van Dam apologists.

290 posted on 04/10/2002 11:40:48 AM PDT by Lauratealeaf
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To: Lauratealeaf
We need to set the example for our children, families, friends and even Van Dam apologists.

You can set the example all you want, but the community doesn't have to follow. And forcing them to follow is called tyranny.

I don't like their lifestyle, I think Danielle would be alive today if her parent's were monogamous home body types.

But neither do I want rigid governmental control of social behavior. I don't think we'd end up with a kinder, gentler country, but more of the shallow PC groupthink that already mars our culture.

294 posted on 04/10/2002 12:00:16 PM PDT by Valpal1
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