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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 14:36:59 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- In article <1992Nov21.200859.12846@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- #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.
-
- There is a rule in physics which states that if something cannot be
- distinguished from anything else then it doesn't exist.
-
- How to tell rules from 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.
-
- The rules are supposedly for society's benefit, and society is supposed to be
- for people's benefit. Exceptions are human rights, which primarily exist to
- preserve a person's right to alter society (Freedom of Speech, for example).
-
- #Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- --
- Frank.ODwyer@ap.mchp.sni.de "You take slaves when you make us free,
- when you make us free your way"
- World Party - 'Ain't going to come til I'm ready'
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