How did law come to dictate our morals?
there isnt this kind of gov worship in imperial or communist countries. its as if jesus made these laws.
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Because laws are supposed to echo the morals of a society. Any college level introductory ethics class will tell you this.
Legislating morality is not what happens in free countries. Americans are not educated enough on liberty and freedom to know how a country can go from free to tyranny. It doesn't happen over night, it happens slowly, like a frog being slowly brought to a boil in a pot on a stove.
"The main political problem is how to prevent police powers from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all struggles for Liberty." Ludwig Von Mises
"The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients and by parts. The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"It is seldom that any Liberty is lost all at once." David Hugh
"A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have. The course of history shows that as the government grows, liberty decreases." Thomas Jefferson
"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric." Thomas Sowell
"If none were to have Liberty but those who understand it, there would not be many freed Men in the world." Lord Halifax
"Liberty has never come from Government. It is always come from the subjects of Government. The history of Liberty is the history of resistance." Woodrow Wilson
"America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal-to discover and maintain liberty among men." Woodrow Wilson
"We will never be through with our fight for Liberty, because their will always be people who do not want the responsibility of freedom, and the will always be people who will gladly take that responsibility away from them, for the power it brings." N. Scott Mills
"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual Liberty is permanent, unsolvable, and necessary." Kathleen Morris
"The object and practice of Liberty lies in the limitation of Governmental power." General Douglas MacArthur
"When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end to Liberty." George Mason
"The argument for Liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reasoning can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privilege, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better." F. A. Hayek
"Of Liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its existence, is unobstructed action according to our will. But Rightful Liberty is within limits drawn around us by the Equal Rights of others. And I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’, because the law is often but the Tyrants-will, and always so when it violates the Rights of an individual." Thomas Jefferson
"No Man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation." General Douglas MacArthur
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of Tyrants; it is the Creed of slaves." William Pitt
"Make men wise and by that very operation you make them free. Civil Liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurp power can stand against the artillery of opinion." William Godwin
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace.We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams
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"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H.L. Mencken
You got it exactly backwards.
The law did not dictate our morals, it reinforces them. I think that if everyone lived by one credo only it should be 'do unto others'. That way if everyone thinks of the consequences before they take action, then it would only need the law to reinforce the message to the masses of what is not acceptalbe in today's society.
Incidentally I am very anti religion as a concept, and possibly abit anarchic too!
When people through out morality and ethics and replaced it with selfishness.
If you think a communist country doesn't have laws against immoral things, how about China's one-child policy? You can argue that abortion is moral, but how can you morally justify controlling the population by killing babies specifically because they are female.
I guarantee you a feminist who wants more women in this world be be mad at you for limiting their freedom to have more people on their side.
By the way, to some people imperialism is fascism. How is not expanding America into the Middle East for political and economical gain not fascism? It's also imperialism, cleverly hidden behind communists.
Just because someone claims to be a Communist or left-wing, or even right-wing, doesn't mean you have to agree with everything they say.
I personally think all of Americans are so "on the edge" of the political spectrum that they are falling off. Fast and hard.
Laws are based on our morals and enforces it. WE need a single standard so various people can get along together.
since the constituion was written
From Gore Vidal's Imperial America, "What should we do about drug addiction? By no means a good thing. As of 1970, England was the model for us to emulate. With a population of 55 million, they had only 1,800 heroin addicts. With our 200 million people we had nearly a half-million addicts. What were they doing right? For one thing, they turned they turned the problem over to the doctors. Instead of treating the addict as a criminal, they required him to register with a physician who then gives him, at controlled intervals, a prescription so that he can obtain his drug. Needless to say, our society, based as it is on a passion to punish others, could not bear so sensible a solution. We promptly leaned, as they say, on the British, to criminalize the sale and consumption of drugs, and now the beautiful city of Edinburgh is the most drug-infested place in Europe."
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