clauzon@watarts.UUCP (Cecilia Lauzon) (02/23/85)
I'm doing a little paper for my philosophy class. I thought a news posting would help broaden my viewpoints. My topic concerns the rightness, or morality of *imposing* a set of morals on others. For instance, I think that many laws are morally based. Marriage has to go through legal channels for the dissolution of the contract even though both parties may agree to the dissolution. Why should society dictate the lifestyle of law-abiding citizens? Any kind of discriminatory moral system I hold as being immoral (e.g. (im)Moral Majority). Often people in Christian fundamentalist-type backgrounds end up neurotic because they've had to deal with repressive lifestyles imposed on them by their parents. How moral or right is this for them? There are a lot of issues here. I hope to get some discussion generated on this topic. The ideas I receive from this discussion are only to help me explore new ideas, not to write my paper for me.