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[BenLurkin]

A one megaton detonation 1,500 feet over the Washington Monument?

[RepRivFarm]

Laws don’t save societies. A moral and upright people save societies.

A proliferation of laws is what you get when you don’t have a moral and upright people.

[Albion Wilde]

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[Architect of Avalon]

The dynamic between women and men centers on procreation.

[kaehurowing]

Somewhere Confucius wrote that a moral society doesn’t need laws, and that the more laws a society has, the more it is in trouble.

[loveliberty2]

Dr. Walter Williams--a 21st Century spokesman for the Founders and Framers of America's Constitution! See below:

VIRTUE Among The People

The Soul Of America’s Constitution

America’s Founders knew that it takes more than a perfect plan of government to preserve liberty. Something else is needed – some moral principle diffused among the people to unite and strengthen the urge to peaceful observance of law. They recognized that the raw materials of a free government are people who can act morally without compulsion, who do not willfully violate the rights of others, and who love liberty enough to demand that government’s power is very limited. They used the word “virtuous” to describe such people. Defined by Webster, “virtue” is “a conformity to a standard of right,” but whatever word is used to describe it, such a moral standard is the necessary fountainhead of a free society.

The Declaration of Independence referred to “Nature’s God,” the “Creator,” the “Supreme judge of the World,” and “Divine Providence” Our nation’s founders came together, voluntarily, to create a limited government to secure for them and posterity their God-given rights to life, liberty, and property. Such liberty, they believed, rested on three great supports:

1. Natural law and unalienable natural rights granted by the Creator,
2. A written constitution to assure a government of laws, not of rulers, and
3. VIRTUE among the people – the best defense against tyranny.

Their own words are eloquent reminders of their devotion to this belief:

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports…. It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.” – George Washington’s Farewell Address

“We may look up to Armies for our defense, but virtue is our best security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where virtue is not supremely honored.” – Samuel Adams

“Virtue must underlay all institutional arrangements if they are to be healthy and strong. The principles of democracy are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted!’ – John Adams

And Alexis de Tocqueville, the French statesman who traveled across America in the 1830’s and wrote a two­-volume study entitled “Democracy In America,” has been widely quoted as observing:

“America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

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Footnote: "Our Ageless Constitution," W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III:  ISBN 0-937047-01-5

[Ammo Republic 15]

Walter Williams is a national treasure.

[Pajamajan]

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[NorthMountain]

Here’s What We Need.

We don't need a "what". We need a "Who".

His name is Jesus of Nazareth ... and we need to return to him in repentance.

[sparklite2]

Special respect is given women. Yesteryear even the lowest of lowdown men would not curse or use foul language to or in the presence of women

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It came as a shock to me when I moved back to the US from Canada in the late seventies. Something happened during the five years I was gone. The-girl-next-door had adopted casual swearing in public and was completely un-selfconscious about it. When I called out a girl for her filthy mouth, she looked at me like I was crazy.

This war on masculinity thing piles insult onto injury, excoriating men for micro-aggressions while the fairer sex adopts the ways of a bar-room brawler.

[rlmorel]

Great thread, TSR. Love Walter Williams, and I am right there with him on this column. One of my favorite conservatives, along with Thomas Sowell, both of whom are coincidentally, black men)

Special respect is given women. Yesteryear even the lowest of lowdown men would not curse or use foul language to or in the presence of women. (Women are encouraged to swear like men now)

To see a man sitting on a crowded bus or trolley car while a woman is standing used to be unthinkable. It was deemed common decency for a man to give up his seat for a woman or elderly person. (I offer my seat all the time to women and elderly (and open doors too) and while nearly all elderly appreciate it, there are significant women who are outright rude and hostile. Interesting...)

Today young people use foul language in front of—and often to—adults and teachers. It’s not just foul language. Many youngsters feel that it’s acceptable to assault teachers. Just recently, 45 Pennsylvania teachers resigned because of student violence. (This is incomprehensible to me. My parents would have made my life a living hell, but...I would never, in a million years, ever done anything like that to a teacher, never mind even talking back.)

Back in what my daughter calls prehistoric times, the use of foul language to an adult or teacher would have meant a smack across the face. Of course, today a parent taking such corrective action risks being reported to a local child protective service and even being arrested. (One of the most destructive things in child-rearing is the effort by the state to remove any option by parents for corporal punishment of any kind)

The modern parental or teacher response to misbehavior is to call for “time out.” In other words, what we’ve taught miscreants of all ages is that they can impose physical pain on others and not suffer physical pain themselves. That’s an open invitation to bad behavior. (What is not expressly punished is allowed today)

It has always been considered a good idea to refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage or at least adulthood. During the sexual revolution of the 1960s, lessons of abstinence were ridiculed, considered passé, and replaced with lessons about condoms, birth control pills, and abortion. (While I was unlucky in this respect as a teenager, I understand why it used to be frowned upon)

Out-of-wedlock childbirths are no longer seen as shameful and a disgrace. As a result, the rate of illegitimate births among whites is over 30 percent, and among blacks, it’s over 70 percent. (They have special things in High Schools to encourage this...insanity.)

For over a half-century, the nation’s liberals—along with the education establishment, pseudo-intellectuals, and the courts—have waged war on traditions, customs, and moral values. (Because traditions, customs, and moral values are things not under the control of government...which must not be tolerated.)

Many in today’s generation have been counseled to believe that there are no moral absolutes. Instead, what’s moral or immoral, right or wrong, is a matter of convenience, personal opinion, or what is or is not criminal. (I went into a Unitarian "church" bake sale, and a sign on the wall being aimed at children said: "Do not allow anyone to tell you what is right and what is wrong. These are things your must decide on your own." WHAT?????????)

Society’s first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions, and moral values. Customs, traditions, and moral values are those important thou-shalt-nots, such as thou shalt not murder, shalt not steal, shalt not lie, and shalt not cheat. They also include respect for parents, teachers, and others in authority, plus those courtesies one might read in Emily Post’s rules of etiquette. (Pfft. THAT stuff is all gone.)

These behavioral norms—mostly transmitted by example, word of mouth, and religious teachings—represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience, trial and error, and looking at what works and what doesn’t. (History is only of use to liberals if it suits their purposes. Otherwise, it is to be ignored so wheels can be re-invented and money wasted in large swaths.)

The importance of customs, traditions, and moral values as a means of regulating behavior is that people behave themselves even if nobody’s watching. (I invoked this concept twice today alone, once to frame my own shortcomings which I have regretted and tried to atone for, and once to describe to another person something here on FR)

There are not enough cops. Laws can never replace these restraints on personal conduct in producing a civilized society. At best, the police and the criminal justice system are the last desperate lines of defense for a civilized society. (Allow cops to do their work. That isn't happening now, and why cities like Chicago and Baltimore are descending into third world hellholes)

Unfortunately, customs, traditions, and moral values have been discarded without an appreciation for the role they played in creating a civilized society, and now we’re paying the price—and that includes the recent revelations regarding the treatment of women. (Women deserve special consideration, but they have been cajoled to trading that consideration away for a pig in a poke, feminism.)

[Boogieman]

“To see a man sitting on a crowded bus or trolley car while a woman is standing used to be unthinkable.”

Pff, when women give up the right to vote and stop trying to turn our country into a socialist hellhole, then I’ll give up my seat.

[cpdiii]

Excellent post of that article.

Circa 1966, if a male student had of assaulted a female teacher he would have got away with it for about 15 seconds. The reason for the 15 seconds is at first we would not believe our eyes. Post 15 seconds he would have had his ass kicked by the other males in the class even if we did not like that particular female teacher. It would have been ugly. The cops would have shook our hands.

If the assaulter was female we would have simply restrained her. If male we would have kicked his ass big time.

You just did not do that stuff back in the 60s.

[Elsie]

Isn't reaping the whirlwind FUN!!!