re i thought commercial advertising was not allowed in c sjg eu voder nsc com matt galaxy nsc com matt freivald x writes in article in talk politics misc bob cos com bob blackshaw writes and ms regard please don t give us the trite you can t legislate morality nonsense again there is little else that is legislated including the moral concept of rights really pure socialism had this belief and fell flat on its ass by attempting to follow such reasoning suppose you pass a law that states that i must love my neighbour regardless of race religion etc how exactly do you plan to enforce such a law better yet how do you plan to measure compliance and even if you overcome those two obstacles how will you ever know if i have become more moral or not you either missed the point or are being somewhat disingenuous i have never heard anyone suggest that you can legislate what people think laws are based on either expediency i e traffic laws or morality i e human rights as far as i can tell and the majority are based on the latter once more around the racetrack see the original statement that it is nonsense to believe that you cannot legislate morality i simply stated that they can pass all the laws they want but not a single one of them will make you or i more moral people they may make us act in a moral manner but our actions are only a reflection of the unwillingness to risk punishment they say nothing about whether we have become more moral or not perhaps the distinction is too fine matt freivald tog i m not a feminist i m for equal rights if you don t believe in abortion don t have one if you don t believe in slavery don t own one if you don t believe in murder don t commit one pro child pro family pro life these are my opinions only and not those of my employer
