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- Subject: [Discuss] Govt Source Code Policy
- From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 10:27:37 -0400
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On 4/6/2016 8:54 AM, IngeGNUe wrote: > Legal is not moral is not legal BUT, rules exist for a reason and it is > good to enforce rules. It would be chaos if no one enforced rules! I don't disagree per se. Laws are necessary for a reasonably ordered society to function. What I disagree with is the enforcement by law of one person's idea of morality over another's. To wit: the Volstead Act. The Volstead Act is not about good vs. evil, right vs. wrong. It is about one group of people claiming higher morals in order to exert control over the activities of the entire country. Greg is doing the same thing. He is using his claim to higher morals in order to justify exerting control over those he deems to be less ethical than himself. I'm certain he means well but that just makes it all the more oppressive. As C.S. Lewis put it: Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. -- Rich P.
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