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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (54758)	8/16/2002 6:49:17 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Isn' t the Constitution analogous to the commandments of God? I wouldn't say "analogous to" but "based on." Ya know, that Western Tradition stuff that Neo keeps yammering about. <g> The main problem with your scenario of scientists one day suddenly proving there is no God and a committee taking over and rewriting the morality rules is that it wouldn't happen that way. It would be gradual and in context. The laws and practices we have now, which were tempered if not formed by religious notions of morality, would still be with us the day after the big announcement. They're the status quo and the status quo is always the default. Somehow I can't imagine a "committee" sitting down to an agenda of dispensing with laws against killing. That's here to stay as is just about all the rest of it. Force of inertia if nothing else. Now, people don't kill either because God says it's wrong and commands them not to or because they think it's wrong. It will still be wrong if and when the scientists make that announcement. The scientists would be dispensing with God, not human nature, which makes us partial to the status quo as long as it serves reasonably well and also makes almost all of us too nice to kill people. Or history, which would still be our history.