Guiding Questions:
What is the obligation of government.
Should it be an actor in society, or just provide structure?
Is government intervention in non-legal issues a good thing or no?
should the government be in the business of legislating morality?
Please discuss below
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[quote]Guiding Questions: What is the obligation of government. [quote]To protect the natural rights of the residents(Life liberty, property that kinda stuff [/quote] Should it be an actor in society, or just provide structure? [quote]Both, it provides a structure I it’s very existence but in order to uphold the obligation it must also be an actor [/quote] Is government intervention in non-legal issues a good thing or no? [quote] Generally causes more problems then I t solves. [/quote] should the government be in the business of legislating morality? [quote]Hell no, put simply the morality of the government is inherently different then the individual morality of the citizenship. Things shouldn’t be illegal simply because they’re morally wrong but because they infringe on the rights of others. Sometimes those will overlapse of course [/quote] Please discuss below[/quote]