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To: ManyMoose who wrote (56398)	7/26/2004 10:44:08 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) of 793970

You can have a free society in which the predominant view is moral, in which the immoral are not glorified. Who decides what is moral? As long as the self-designated arbiters of morality declare that fun is immoral, freedom and morality will be incompatible. Free, prosperous, people are going to have fun, whether or not the preacher approves. This goes back to the same problem that the left has with the market economy: the market doesn't respond to what we think people ought to want, it responds to what people really do want, defined by what they choose when they have the choice. The only way you can make people choose fundamentalist morality is to remove all other choices. Sorry, but that's the way it is. The Christians want everybody else to act like Christians, the vegan animal rights freaks want everybody else to act like them. Both are horrified at what they perceive as the moral excess. No matter how horrified they are, in a free society they have no right to impose their concept of morality on others. Free or moral. Our choice.

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