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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.200859.12846@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:08:59 GMT
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- frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes ...
- > It's time to come clean and admit that states do indeed force morality
- >on people - the important point is that the morality a state uses must be
- >very general, and be as broadly acceptable to as many people as possible, and
- >be no more than the state needs to function. That is, one seeks to diminish
- >the force, not the morality.
-
- States impose _rules_ on people, not morality.
-
- Of course, every state wants its people to _beleive_ that it is
- imposing morality -- it makes it much easier to enforce some
- arbitrary rule if you can persuade the enforcees that the rule
- is really for their own good.
-
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- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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