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Originally posted by WyrdeOne
There have been a few people on this thread acting like they dictate the laws in America, saying crap like "If you want to eat dog live somewhere else" likely they're white christian males with a messianic complex...
Societal taboos and acceptance (or rejection) by the people translate directly over into legislation which then becomes your laws and part of the legal system....these societal "morals" held by the culture are the cause of the resulting laws....the laws then reinforce the cultural "morals".
You're talking about societal taboos and acceptance by the neighbors, and I'm talking about law, crime and punishment. The community can shun me for eating dog, they can even hate me, they can use voodoo, the evil eye, prayers, whatever, but passing a law prohibiting me from eating dog infringes too much on personal freedom.
Originally posted by mwm1331
See this type of stupid # is why all animal rights laws should be repealed.
Originally posted by 00PS
Do you know how stupid it is to read a sentance like that on a site that says to deny ignorance.
I bet you either shave your face with shick or gillette right?
NO, what i am arguing is that the issue (a personal liberty to eat cats/dogs), does NOT circumvent or superceed the rights of other citizens, using democratic means, to determine that this or ANY behaivior is or is not to be adopted into the cultural "morals".
You're arguing that eating cats and dogs is contrary to the greater good. How?
and
The authority of a democratic government to legislate the actions of its citizens is limited to preventing one citizens taste from infringing on anothers inalienable rights. You still haven't convinced me that eating dogs is hurting anyone, and if it's not hurting anyone, it doesn't belong in the courts.
If you believe this, you have a long life of being disappointed because this is NOT even close to the truth.
TextLaws are meant to combat peoples problems, not create new ones.
A rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority.
The body of rules and principles governing the affairs of a community and enforced by a political authority; a legal system: international law.
The condition of social order and justice created by adherence to such a system: a breakdown of law and civilized behavior.
A set of rules or principles dealing with a specific area of a legal system: tax law; criminal law.
A piece of enacted legislation.
The system of judicial administration giving effect to the laws of a community: All citizens are equal before the law.
Legal action or proceedings; litigation: submit a dispute to law.
An impromptu or extralegal system of justice substituted for established judicial procedure: frontier law.
An agency or agent responsible for enforcing the law. Often used with the: “The law... stormed out of the woods as the vessel was being relieved of her cargo” (Sid Moody).
Informal. A police officer. Often used with the.
The science and study of law; jurisprudence.
Knowledge of law.
The profession of an attorney.
Something, such as an order or a dictum, having absolute or unquestioned authority: The commander's word was law.
Law
The body of principles or precepts held to express the divine will, especially as revealed in the Bible.
The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
A code of principles based on morality, conscience, or nature.
A rule or custom generally established in a particular domain: the unwritten laws of good sportsmanship.
A way of life: the law of the jungle.
A statement describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met: the law of gravity.
A generalization based on consistent experience or results: the law of supply and demand.
Mathematics. A general principle or rule that is assumed or that has been proven to hold between expressions.
A principle of organization, procedure, or technique: the laws of grammar; the laws of visual perspective.
Originally posted by mwm1331
Originally posted by 00PS
Do you know how stupid it is to read a sentance like that on a site that says to deny ignorance.
I bet you either shave your face with shick or gillette right?
What the hell do my shaving habits have to do with anything?
Originally posted by CazMedia
A society doesnt need a reason more than "the majority of us dont think this is a good idea"...nothing more in order to adopt or reject any idea into its cultural "morals"
Originally posted by CazMedia
There are plenty of laws in place for "victimless crimes" as you called them...big deal.
Originally posted by CazMedia
Basically rules dont have to be nice, and they are usually devicive.
again SO WHAT?
Originally posted by CazMediaI am NOT willing to throw the constitution out and adopt some as yet unnamed form of governance because some minority group wants to change the cultural norm....if the culture thru time and democratic means later determines eating dogs is ok, fine, but you cant say the culture in question is "bad" because they use their rights to decline to accept this into their consciouness.