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- From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
- Message-ID: <Bs5A78.As4@fulcrum.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 09:54:43 GMT
- References: <92206.093638JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Jul26.232402.27100@highlite.uucp> <92210.190047JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- >>>>> On 28 Jul 92 23:00:46 GMT, JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Jenni Sheehey) said:
- Jenni> No. "Why shouldn't people use money to buy illegal drugs?"
- Jenni> "Because they're illegal."
-
- Jenni> "Why are drugs illegal?"
- Jenni> "Because people who are now probably dead, but were
- Jenni> elected by citizens of this country, made a law against
- Jenni> it. I don't think it's wise to use them, but if you
- Jenni> think they're ok, you're welcome to try to change the
- Jenni> law."
-
- The government of the Third Reich was elected, up to a point. Hitler
- received a greater proportion of the popular vote than, for example,
- John Major. He passed laws which essentially legalised the mass
- extermination of certain racial and societal groups. Although I am not
- certain of there having been explicit laws encouraging the gassing of
- Jews, there were explicit laws covering the killing of various
- categories of ``undesirables''.
-
- Question: would you say that someone who refused to kill a young child
- was ``wrong'' if there was a law saying he should do it?
-
- Question: would you say that obeying laws was a defence in moral terms
- (vide Nurmemburg).
-
- Question: do you think that there might just possibily be more to the
- problem of laws than ``it's the law, so follow it?''
-
-
- Obpeeve: simplistic moralists.
-
- ian
-