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To: Katelew who wrote (94712)	11/8/2008 7:19:47 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 541403

Depending on the way I vote, I'm either saying I approve or disapprove of a certain behavior. Only if YOU CHOOSE to frame the question that way. If you were to frame the question differently, you might get a different answer. When we allow people to smoke or get nose rings, we aren't approving of their behavior. We're simply saying that it's their business, not ours, and that they're free to make their own choices just as each of us wants to be free to make our own choices. It's what's right and beautiful about America. Surely "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is "in accordance with [your] own belief system." And I often evaluate moral issues and reach my own conclusion based on whether or not that activity or behavior would advance the human race if EVERYONE engaged in it.</i. That's a suitable metric for evaluating the morality of something. We're not talking about morality, however, but about legality. Yes, Virginia, they are two different things. You are not differentiating between them. We make things illegal when there is a victim and we punish the perpetrator. When things are simply immoral, we turn up our noses but let god or karma extract the punishment.

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