ORIGINAL: JoeRE
Yes. No reason to talk about it though. For me, in a very few instances, personal ethics takes precedence over law. However, to each his own.
I have tried to make sense of the direction our nation is heading. The one thing that causes the greatest amount of concern to me is the loss of personal freedom. The question is why is it slipping, more like racing away? There must be a cause.
I believe this in a nut shell is the cause. The law an absolute has been replaced by ethics and emotion. If some feel something is best then that is the determining action.
By supporting ethics over law you open the gate for anything that the majority feels is ethically right, the end of hunting is one of them. In the mind of many it is unethical to hunt and kill an animal. The law is what keeps tyranny at bay. If you violate the law the door is flung wide open for corruption to move in using feelings and fear to control us. Make no mistake; the law protectsus from the dictator. Give the dictator mindset the authority to ruleus based on emotion/ethics and freedom is dead.
It’s one thing to do wrong; it’s another to call a wrong, right. The vast majority of the respondents to this thread have confirmed what I already believe, freedom is dying. It is desperately gasping for breath and few are aware of it. It is being sacrificed on the altar of feelings.