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To: Dayuhan who wrote (10666)	4/24/2002 11:37:35 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 21057

How can government be reasonably expected to promote morality if people can't agree on what is moral? If you can't get a majority that shares the opinion then I suppose the government would not be a democracy. Sounds like a bad idea to me, no bad is too weak, make that stupid and dangerous, but not quite irrational. Edit - Also moral ideas aren't just things like "you shouldn't have sex with a male if you are male", or even "thou shalt not steal". Ideas like "infringeing on people's freedom is wrong" is a moral idea. I think you can find some partial consensus on some ideas like that. Also the "stupid and dangerous" was refering specifically to the idea that we should toss away democracy to enfroce some detailed and specific moral code, not that moral ideas should have a say in the market place of ideas. Tim