Morality police

[Fresh_Start]

Religious Right in US
Taliban in Afghanistan
Islamic Fundamentalists in Iraq, Saudi Arabia

Why would anyone want our politicians to start setting themselves up as arbitrators of morality?

[BoneDaddy]

1. You will find as many "morality police"

on these boards, it is just a different form of morality. Both the left and right have their sacred cows that are untouchable.

[Fresh_Start]

2. I agree with you.

and most probably despise it in the opposition.
Oh for a mirror to let us see ourselves as we truly are.

[BoneDaddy]

4. So true

but we, as humans, are more likely to project it onto someone else than to see it in ourselves.

[HappyWeasel]

3. Yes.

Eveyone wants to try to force someone else to be more alturistic whether it be to cows, fetuses, to the sensibilities of others, to the rich or to the poor.

[Fresh_Start]

5. I don't think altruism can be forced....

I'm wishing we could have a minimum standard of socially acceptable public behavior, but even that seems a remote possibility today.

I'm going for the 'love thy neighbor as thyself' or 'do onto others as you would have others do onto you' type standard which I admit is far less than many on DU would prefer.