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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (17431)12/2/2002 4:59:14 PM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
But at what point does your neighbor's right to dictate your life end?

The question of the century. You can look at the same "act" and have different moral judgements on the act based on surrounding circumstances. A spouse cheating on his/her partner. Violation of a marriage contract, immoral. Maybe even most people by a large majority would agree that it's immoral, but a majority may not agree that it should be prosecuted. A larger majority may believe that wife swapping is immoral. But implicitly that involves all consenting adults. Then there's polygamy where a group of people they all want to be married...wierd, immoral, illegal. It's illegal, it happens in rural areas of Utah [at a minimum], the authorities know it and they allow it. Equal application of the law?

I suppose we could make a moral judgement that sex before marriage is immoral and therefore should be illegal.
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