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How far into the private lives of citizens may government sanctioned views of morality properly intrude?
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∙ 11y ago
As the civil and criminal law has evolved over the last few hundred years, certain behaviors were determined to be detrimental to a civilized society and were deemed to be in violation of law. Those laws have evolved and been reevaluated and refined over time.
Some laws remain on the books that are reminders of a time when government took a greater role in setting moral standards. Many of those have been ignored for years and are no longer enforced. Some have been officially discarded as society became more sophisticated about laws that had discrimination at their root and originate from a time when government took a greater role in setting "moral standards".
Entire state legal codes have been rewritten in order to remove the offensive, discriminatory parts and include more fair and modern thinking. The modern civilized world has rejected the idea of having the government dictate morality in spite of relentless pressure from various religious groups that seek to dictate and legislate their particular brand of morality.
The government should be extremely unintrusive in "sanctioning" any particular view of morality. That's not its job. In fact, its main function is to preserve freedoms under the United States Constitution. The government should go no further in legislating morality than is presently allowed by existing laws. The government should not intrude at all in the private lives of its citizens.
It should be noted that the more a government imposes moral restrictions on its citizens the less freedom they possess.Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
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