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To: Alouette
"Most Americans... believe that morality is important enough to legislate. While no law can actually prevent incest, for example, laws serve not only a practical purpose but an important educational one as well."

If the full force of the coercive state via morality laws is needed for "important educational" purposes to teach morality, then churches, mosques, and synagogues are abject failures at teaching morality.

I learned that incest was wrong and to avoid that type of behavior long before I knew it was illegal.

No law prohibiting murder is necessary for me not to kill a fellow citizen, unless in self-defense.

The point is, moral people do not need moral laws to act morally.

10 posted on 05/05/2003 6:42:00 AM PDT by tahiti
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To: tahiti
moral people do not need moral laws to act morally.

But moral people need moral laws in order to prosecute immoral people who act immorally.

11 posted on 05/05/2003 6:45:31 AM PDT by Alouette (Why is it called "International Law" if only Israel and the United States are expected to keep it?)
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