The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.
The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
Good morals lead to good laws.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.
I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.
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