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Re: Ya wanna talk about legislating morality?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 5 May 2005 18:35:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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There is a culture war
going on. I honestly think that the envelope-pushing, values-distaining
Left will lead us to anarchy.
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To be honest, the culture war has been going on since before the first human
saw another human from outside his family. The culture war continues to this
day and will continue until we’re all assimilated: it’s called society.
I accept that this is your fear, but can you accept those of us on the Left,
who, rather than disdaining values, embrace a different set of values?
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Perhaps. But in all honesty, what are those values?
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Many
on my side of the aisle fear--really fear--that the regressive attitudes of a
powerful, non-representative, and extremist minority will (to use a
not-entirely-baseless caricature) declare shellfish an abomination and stone
us to death with stones. And that’s just to start with.
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Look, I don’t wish a “Theocracy” any more than you do. But I do wish a society
where its citizens respect each others’ rights. I believe that only a society
that has a respect for a higher power can actually achieve that. There must
be something above humanity to which to point for justification of “good”. I
don’t even care if that “higher power” is the Christian understanding of God;
people must be accountable to something other than themselves.
JOHN
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| (...) Geez, I don't know if I can delineate them concisely, but they entail non-aggression, a respect for fact, and an acceptance that, lacking evidence to the contrary, this is all we have so let's all make the best of it. (...) I believe you. (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) To be honest, the culture war has been going on since before the first human saw another human from outside his family. The culture war continues to this day and will continue until we're all assimilated: it's called society. I accept that (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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