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To: LesX who wrote (267)	8/21/1998 10:41:00 AM
From: Jim Roof	Read Replies (1) of 67261

<<It is bad news the day any government attempts to micro-manage our lives by telling us what is morally right or wrong.>> Every piece of legislation that has been passed since the beginning of time bears the imprint of the morality of those who passed it. There is no way to divorce legislation from the process of determining right from wrong or at least trying to find an acceptable shade of gray. The tattered phrase 'you cannot legislate morality' has been tossed about indiscriminately for so long that it is not even questioned by most. Tell me, who is guilty of the worst form of 'micro-management'? The group who wishes to encourage generally acceptable behavior through the incentives of reward/punishment OR the group who wishes to impose their very thought processes, the core of which is the axiom that 'you have no right to tell anyone what is right or wrong'? Tell me also, is there more danger in being to lax in matters of morality or being too strict? Would we have been better off for the last 30 years if people had been more sexually restrained? Would we have grammar school children gunning down classmates if we were bold enough to look these kids in the eye when they were 5-8 years old and say "Some things are morally wrong and you will ultimately answer for your deeds here on earth" instead of teaching them that they are merely the product of mathematical chance - the result of random forces creating life from a pool of slime? A cursory glance at American history will show that with the onset of liberal thought there emerged liberal excesses which called out for conservative intervention. As a whole, out culture behaves today like a 7 year old child who pitches tantrums every time an issue of discipline and restraint is voiced. I actually agree with your statement but must add that the worst micro-management imaginable is the acceptance and propagation of the idea that anything goes and nobody has a right to voice their views on what is right and wrong. That is cultural adolescence. Jim

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