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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
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- Subject: Re: Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:25:17 GMT
- References: <Jan.13.14.35.36.1993.7498@romulus.rutgers.edu> <1993Jan16.163714.17827@mtu.edu> <13947@optilink.COM>
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- cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan16.163714.17827@mtu.edu>, pecampbe@mtu.edu (Paul Campbell) writes:
- >> In article <90302@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
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- >> It is NOT government's place to go around defining moral and ethical
- >> issues.
- >
- >But it is certainly one of the functions of government to define
- >what immoral and unethical actions will be prohibited.
- No. It is up to the PEOPLE to define what things we will allow the
- government to do. We define those things that we wish enforced.
-
- >We prohibit murder. We prohibit kidnapping. We prohibit fraud. Every
- >one of these is defining a punishment for an action that most people
- >consider to be immoral and unethical.
- Each of these is a violation of a persons rights. You are punishing for
- a violation of the right to life, liberty, etc, etc.
-
- >If you buy the argument that
- >an embryo is human life from conception, then abortion is murder,
- >and it is therefore just as appropriate for governmental action as
- >any other murder. If you don't buy this argument, then it's not
- >murder. But governments, BY DEFINITION, are engaged in forcing
- >the morals of one group on another.
- No, they are not. Our government, by definition, is given a limited set of
- rules that define its function (the Constitution). The people established
- the government to protect their rights...and limited the governemnts
- ability to take more power. Too bad it didn't work...
-
- -Steve
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