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Old 08-15-2002, 05:09 PM   #10
MaggieL
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
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Originally posted by hot_pastrami
I think of laws in a democracy as something intended to reflect a community's lowest common moral denominators.
Funny, I don't think of democratic laws as properly a mechanism for enforcing morals. I think of them as a mechanism to help people with *different* moral values to share a society without doing great harm to each other.
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