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To: epicure who wrote (76900)	4/5/2000 3:42:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

There are doubtless bad laws, and bad conceptions of how society should be ordered, which is why ethics is so necessary. I am in a position to condemn Nazi Germany, as being in violation of the natural law. All you can do is say that you don't like it.......

To: epicure who wrote (76900)	4/5/2000 3:54:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<if you want to define that as good or moral, go right ahead, but I can't possibly agree with you.>> The foundation of jurisprudence in most societies can find its seed in some definition of what "being" is when referencing "human beings." That is, such and such is what human beings are made of and how they operate. The laws therefore come along to support the operation of human beings as they are meant to operate with out interference. If I operate best by breathing from the atmosphere then I ought to be able to do that without interference from other creatures, thus it is right for me to breath and the law should protect that practice as a "right." Any law supporting that practice is therefore good and moral. A law in and of itself can be judged by us as individuals as a bad and immoral law. For example if we consider smoking cigarettes and try to legislate the practice, the smokers are going to cry that you are interfering with their right to consume as they choose and nonsmokers are going to cry that you are interferring with their right to breath the atmosphere unrestricted by smoker's pollutants.