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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Here’s a novel idea... How about letting people decide for themselves? How about setting some base rules (which do, I agree, tend to follow the 10 commandments), and letting people sort out the more personal, smaller moral issues themselves. How about observing some deference to the natural law that a man ought to be able to do as he likes in a free society, save behaviors which do harm to others?
I don't want to live under your or Tom's UMC. I prefer my own. Why do I have to follow someone else's?
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I agree with you, but you are just arguing for another UMC. Certain things may be immoral, but it is also immoral to make such things illegal. So under your code and mine (or what we believe the code says), lying in many circumstances may be immoral, but it would also be immoral for the government to make a law that punishes lying (except of course, under oath, were we think lying should be punished). Preventing governments from imposing laws that restrict our freedomes is a moral position.
Being condesending and judgemental may be immoral, but I think it would also be immoral for the government to enact laws punishing such activity.
The US often pressures other government to stop outlawing acts most American think are immoral, but our government believes laws outlawing such immoral acts are also immoral. For example, laws where adulteres are either incarcerated or put to death.
