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To: DesertRhino

If morality were a matter of opinion, you might have a point.

Objective morality actually keeps the individual and society safe.

You should read the SECOND line of that post you replied to as well.

You could just as easily commented that if people lived a moral life, they wouldn’t be as likely to need to impose their needs on others (through the government).


29 posted on 10/18/2010 9:39:19 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: MrB

“If morality were a matter of opinion, you might have a point.”

Ok, honest disagreement. It sounds like you think matters of general morality should be enforced by public law. IE,,do you also believe adultery, or default on a debt should be a criminal offense?


42 posted on 10/18/2010 9:58:21 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: MrB

“Objective morality actually keeps the individual and society safe.”
Ahhh i see what you are pursuing.

Allow a small irony here,, i recall, the title of this thread is, “Libertarians: Still in search of their perfect world”,,,yes?

It appears libertarians are not alone in the “perfect world” quest.


43 posted on 10/18/2010 10:01:31 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: MrB

Well, speaking of those who must work instead of smoke dope,, i guess it would behoove me to get busy myself. Have a good one, and i think in truth, we aren’t so far apart.


57 posted on 10/18/2010 10:29:06 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: MrB
You could just as easily commented that if people lived a moral life, they wouldn’t be as likely to need to impose their needs on others (through the government).

No one has any such "need" Immoral people have the desire to forcibly impose their personal preferences.

123 posted on 11/05/2010 10:54:17 AM PDT by King Greymung
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