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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 268204" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>If you ever want to see how screwed up we are here's a fun exercise which I've done myself and always had my kids do. IMO biblical moral code is libertarian and therefore I teach the morals first and let the political and economics take care of themselves as they always do.</p><p> </p><p>Take the commandment "Thou Shalt not Steal" and now sit back with pen and paper and imagine a world where everything in clear violation of that commandment would not exist anymore. Now of those things that don't exist anymore, take everything that was created to compensate for the violation of thou shalt not steal that you listed and remove them from existence. </p><p> </p><p>If you are honest as kids tend to be better at in these kind of cases sometimes, it won't take long to see that economically and even politically, our world as we know it would collaspe around us. Mass amounts of people out of work, business as we know would be no more and you could go on. </p><p> </p><p>On a Philosophical level, what does that say about us and our ideas of law and governance and the society we have created?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 268204, member: 2189"] If you ever want to see how screwed up we are here's a fun exercise which I've done myself and always had my kids do. IMO biblical moral code is libertarian and therefore I teach the morals first and let the political and economics take care of themselves as they always do. Take the commandment "Thou Shalt not Steal" and now sit back with pen and paper and imagine a world where everything in clear violation of that commandment would not exist anymore. Now of those things that don't exist anymore, take everything that was created to compensate for the violation of thou shalt not steal that you listed and remove them from existence. If you are honest as kids tend to be better at in these kind of cases sometimes, it won't take long to see that economically and even politically, our world as we know it would collaspe around us. Mass amounts of people out of work, business as we know would be no more and you could go on. On a Philosophical level, what does that say about us and our ideas of law and governance and the society we have created? [/QUOTE]
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