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YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE MORALITY. It has been an epic FAIL at every attempt throughout history. <snip>
Without jumping into the pot thing at all...other than whatever is truly medicine should be medicine... I'm disagreeing with "YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE MORALITY."
Take a deep breath and let me explain in the illustration below.
That statement, "
YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE MORALITY.", is used ad infinitum, ad nauseam by the left to justify their "beliefs" and it's caught on with the mainstream. It just isn't true. We legislate morality every day....often times we break our own beliefs and mores and sometimes it is our fellow citizen. What law do we have on the individual/interpersonal level (not regulations, like taxes, codes, etc..though some do count) that is not legislating morality?
For instance...stop signs. Let's take this a step..."everyone" agrees that we should have sensible stop signs and speed limits, right? Its to protect the population at large...makes sense, right? I can say that is your morality...why should I have to stop? What gives you the right to impede me? So what if grandma get's fileted wide open when I run over her....the dumb witch should have stopped for Mr. Me, so it's her fault. She was dead wrong to drive in front of Mr. Me....so what if she bought it? Mr. Me...hey, I don't care there is nothing wrong with wiping the old bat out from my morale standpoint. What is it that makes your belief morally superior to mine?
But, you say, "everyone" can agree that you are aberrant and should bow to the law of stop signs, speed limits, etc. That is your morality and the morality of those who agree with you....Mr. Me has a different morality. What gives you the right to tell me what is wrong or right? That is you legislating morality and what gives you the right to make Mr. Me accept your morale standard....I don't care grandma is gone, that's your morality not mine.
So...I don't buy that "you can't legislate morality." It is done every day in thousands and thousands of ways.
I'm just sayin'......