10-04-2005, 09:30 PM
Any1,Oct 4 2005, 03:51 PM Wrote:By allowing the legislation of morality, we open the door for ideologues to hijack our government under its banner. Historically, communitarianism is the arch-enemy of personal liberty.
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So then, you do not believe criminal law should exist? Or you do not believe government should exist in general? If a government says it is not OK to kill someone the day after child birth, but it is OK to kill them the day before, is that not just as much a moral judgment as if they set the date to 2 years after birth, or the day after conception? What if it's an immigrant instead of a citizen? What if it's a frog instead of a human being? If government is to be able to protect individual liberties, there must be a concensus on something as fundamental as what qualifies someone as an individual to be protected. And that is known as a moral judgment.