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**tooratrack** · 10-29-2011, 07:03 PM

So, which moral paradigm is acceptable by you ? You really want the government to enforce said paradigm, that's the only way it will work and it will fail. You cannot legislate morality. I mostly agree with Mossfern here.

How you expect a booming economy with superfluous government legislation. It doesn't work, the social cons tried it, continue to try it, and it fails each time.

I'm not sure if you can legislate morality, but you can legislate immorality.

When you make laws that steal property from citizens and redistribute it, when you have laws that take away a person's freedom of association, when they are forced to hire or sell or rent to people they'd otherwise not associate with, when you pass unconstitutional laws at the federal level that limit the power of the states and localities to govern themselves according to their own best interests, you are essentially legislating immorality.

For instance, the word discrimination today has a negative connotation. Why? Discrimination is a good thing. When you go to make a purchase, do you not discriminate based on quality, price, reliability, etc?

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tooratrack Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 386 Senior Member	So, which moral paradigm is acceptable by you ? You really want the government to enforce said paradigm, that's the only way it will work and it will fail. You cannot legislate morality. I mostly agree with Mossfern here. How you expect a booming economy with superfluous government legislation. It doesn't work, the social cons tried it, continue to try it, and it fails each time. I'm not sure if you can legislate morality, but you can legislate immorality. When you make laws that steal property from citizens and redistribute it, when you have laws that take away a person's freedom of association, when they are forced to hire or sell or rent to people they'd otherwise not associate with, when you pass unconstitutional laws at the federal level that limit the power of the states and localities to govern themselves according to their own best interests, you are essentially legislating immorality. For instance, the word discrimination today has a negative connotation. Why? Discrimination is a good thing. When you go to make a purchase, do you not discriminate based on quality, price, reliability, etc?
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