Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: tobacco advertising ban
Message-ID: <1451@looking.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 07:01:48 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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In article <1988Mar1.175539.23134@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> jdd@db.toronto.edu ("John D. DiMarco") writes:
>Thank God you're not our government. Then any moral offence (including
>murder, rape, assult, theft) would be legal, because "government has
>no place legislating morality"!

Government does have no place legislating morality.  In spite of what
you may believe yourself, many people feel that murder, rape, assault and
theft are not illegal because they are "moral offenses."  They are illegal
because just about everybody agrees that they want protection against these
things.

Morality needn't enter into it.  "I don't want to be killed" is quite enough.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473