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To: Jim Roof who wrote (1490)	9/3/1998 9:24:00 PM
From: Earl Risch	Read Replies (1) of 67261

Conservatives are often labeled as the 'morality police' or at least in some manner are portrayed as wishing to intrude upon personal behavior. The basic reason for this is that Conservatives are more aware of the fact that without due exercise of personal responsibility the freedoms that they espouse are weakened and in some cases stand to be lost altogether. Jim, Are you agreeing that the labels are accurate? It appears to me that you are agreeing and stating why you need to be "moral police". Why do you think that freedom necessarily means "free personal expression of numerous vices"? The wise are aware of the necessity for personal responsibility and a code of ethics, whether they are religious or not. The freedoms that you espouse would not be weakened or lost if we would return to a government based on the constitution. You could live your life style and I could live mine, with minimal coercion by the government. It's this creeping socialism that is the threat to all our freedoms. Many argue against the idea of 'morality' having a place in public policy and to prove their point they dredge up the crusades or the Spanish Inquisition on which to construct their argument. An honest answer to this is to bring up the likes of Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and a host of atheists whose societies made a go at 'non-religious' morality. Does bringing up the likes of Stalin, Hitler et al make the crusades and the Spanish Inquisition go away? Your simply illustrating that man, whether religious or not, is capable of atrocities, and we need laws to protect us from each other. My philosophy is basically libertarian with a small l. Unfortunately, many think that means I believe in anarchy, license ... Under libertarianism there certainly would be nothing to stop people from living the life style of their choice as long as it didn't interfere with the freedom of others to do the same. The attitude expressed by most conservatives makes me think of the Puritans who came to this country to gain religious freedom, only to set up another state religion that took this freedom away. JMHO ER

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