Should morality be legislated?

[Sacred Jellybean]

No , I don't approve of the U.S invasion , Is Iraq better off now with sectarian ethnic cleansing everywhere? Having loads of people being blown to shreds everyday with little certainty that any kind of democracy will emerge?

http://www.exile.ru/2006-November-03/the...l_war.html

This pretty much sums up why the war in Iraq is fucked up.

I don't agree with it either - I was just curious.

The Mexico thing is a joke SJB , They don't wanna speak any English.

Sorry, sometimes sarcasm has a tendency to fly way over my head.

Sacred jellybean hasn't the Cartoon outrage and the Pope backlash made it pretty clear something wrong over there, People being murdered in retaliation for danish cartoonist drawing pictures of the prophet Mohamed riding camels.

Of course it has, but with the way you were saying it, you sounded one to share the beliefs of one of those paranoid crackers out in Bumblefuckville with a shot-gun, muttering about how we need to get rid of all 'dem Muslim terr-rists. I wasn't assuming that upfront, but it was initially a (false) suspicion.

There are people addicted to video games. There are people addicted to MMORPGS, the internet in general, addicted to cars, addicted to porn, addicted to chocolate, addicted to exercise, addicted to work, addicted to mountain-climbing, addicted to debates, addicted to computers, addicted to origami, addicted to Sudoku, addicted to reading, addicted to writing, addicted to watching sports, addicted to animals.

EVERYTHING has the potential to foster addiction, and many of those up there are as dangerous as being addicted to lottery tickets. We should ban all of those activities to be safe.

Well said, I agree 100%.

[SJ's reply to me]

I wrote a good-sized reply to this last night, but lost the whole thing due to a Database Error... haven't gotten up the will to rewrite it yet...

Damn... :( To play it safe, you should copy + paste all your long posts to a text document before posting next time.

Women who kill there unborn children for convenience sake, shout be hung up by there clit and then stabbed in the stomach with a spear, crucifiction style.

There was a girl in my high school math class who had already had 7 abortions by age 16. I wanted to sow a penis to her stomach so nobody would fuck her.

I definitely agree with you there. Women should have the right to an abortion, but they shouldn't be using it as a birth-control method. 7 times by age 16 is mind-boggling.

Hmm... I agree that "7 by 16" is pushing it, but at the same time, a nagging voice in my head asks, "why is it okay to go through this procedure a couple times, but not excessively?" I don't care for girls who use abortions as a contraceptive, but if it's okay to "kill" an embryo once or twice, why isn't it "okay" to do so more than 5 times? Just playing devil's advocate, here. There will be a toll taken on the woman's body (such as lowering her chances of again conceiving), but that's her decision to make. If it's not morally unsound to "kill" an embryo once, it shouldn't be morally unsound to do it more. Do you view abortion as something that should only be considered a last resort, or a "sin" that's forgivable the first couple times?

Here's another topic on legislation of morality - how do you guys feel about censorship? Personally, I consider censorship to be an abomination. Nothing should be censored everywhere, even hate speech. I don't mind television networks or websites censoring their own content, but the government should hardly ever (if at all) censor any media. It might be acceptable in some cases, but I can't think of any at the moment.