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AtheistCrusader

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2. Einstein?

Reply to Taverner (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 03:12 AM

Dec 2012

Didn't he mean Bastiat?

No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it would be difficult for a person to choose between them.

See: FISA, Patriot Act, the war on some drugs, etc.

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Oliver Stone to RT: ‘US has become an Orwellian state’ [View all] Taverner Dec 2012 OP

I don't care what anybody says. Blue_In_AK Dec 2012 #1

I agreed before I read the sheeps clothing part flamingdem Dec 2012 #3

It is time that progressives on the left talked to crazies on the right AverageMe Dec 2012 #7

Einstein? AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #2

Does Bastiat explain why he considers the loss of moral sense as bad as loss of respect for the law? JVS Dec 2012 #4

Depends. I tend to agree with you, insofar as allowing torture or indefinite detention without legal AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #5

^ green for victory Dec 2012 #6

Great post! dreamnightwind Dec 2012 #9

+100 Taverner Dec 2012 #12

An excellent comment Ian62 Dec 2012 #13

The Patriot Act was wrong... awoke_in_2003 Dec 2012 #8

Is Oliver Stone a DU troll too? A closet Republican sowing dissent? Bonobo Dec 2012 #10

That depends. It depends on whether your ethics are situational or not. Iow sabrina 1 Dec 2012 #11

Oliver Stone is correct Ian62 Dec 2012 #14

all the same DonCoquixote Dec 2012 #15

I lost all respect for Oliver Stone after his completely whacked out CT movie RomneyLies Dec 2012 #16

I don't think the movie JFK was ever intended to be a documentary. Blue_In_AK Dec 2012 #17

The problem is, Stone believes most of the nonsense presented in the film. RomneyLies Dec 2012 #18

Even the greats of film-making can be assholes. Archae Dec 2012 #19

Have you seen his new documentary Taverner Dec 2012 #20

I haven't seen it, now will I see it. Archae Dec 2012 #21

I like it, Taverner, Blue_In_AK Dec 2012 #22