mark@utzoo.UUCP (mark bloore) (08/14/83)
a recent article asks that we consider what the world would be like if
everyone obeyed the 10 commandments.
as i recall (having looked them up some years ago (in a KJV bible)), one of
the commandments proscribes working on a sunday. what would the world
be like if firemen, pharmacists, meteorologists, doctors, power-, water-,
gas- and telephone-workers, lifeguards and newscasters (ie for emergency
announcements) did not work on sundays?
would it be considered work to keep your own weather-watch in tornado season?
if a fruit farmer received a frost warning on sunday, would he let his crop
be destroyed? (on second thought, this is not a problem, without
meteorologists or newscasters). it is work to milk a cow on weekdays; if
you don't milk them on sunday they will hurt a lot. (that commandment also
applies to domestic animals; perhaps they wouldn't produce on sunday?)
i left the police out of my list because their duties in a crime-free world
would be rather different, but it occurs to me to wonder whether there are
crimes not covered by the ten commandments. for example, may a woman
covert her neighbour's husband? (and is it a crime anyway?)
mARK bLOORE
univ of toronto
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