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 {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!mark