AusGeoff wrote on Sep 28
th, 2022 at 7:41pm:
The little-known 11th Commandment apparently said to ignore the first ten.
Hey AusGeoff, you never did try to answer this question i posed in another thread...
..about applying 1 set of laws for all citizens.
Q.
Are you an anarchist ?
Is it your opinion that 'all rules suck' ?
What rules [laws] would you like people [that YOU live amongst] to respect ?
Don't kill ? Don't commit adultery ?Don't steal the property of others ? Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1659514951/21#21
Quote:
AusGeoff,
You seem to be implying that it is a terrible and onerous thing, to ask individuals, who wish to live in a society of men and women, to also live according to a set of fair rules [i.e. one set of rules, which apply equally to all individuals]
....and, if you discover, that those specific laws/rules, were adopted, specifically, from Judeo-Christian [biblical] ethics/rules ?
Surely, it doesn't matter where the ethics/rules come from, as much as do those ethics/rules tend to produce peace and order, in a society of men and women ?
QUESTION;
Is it a terrible thing, to institute a list of laws among/within a community of people, so as to try to curb, strife, theft and murder among them ?
...and then is it reasonable to then claim that it is cruel to institute an agreed punishment, against those individuals who transgress the agreed community laws [i.e. laws which are agreed to, by the majority of a community] ?
e.g.
6 of the Ten Commandments from the bible......
Honor your Godly parents. [is it unreasonable, to ask the young to respect the old ? ]
Don't kill. [is it unreasonable, to ask persons to NOT murder others ? ]
Don't commit adultery. [is it unreasonable, to ask persons to NOT fornicate among themselves, in the manner, that wild beasts do ? ]
Don't steal. [is it unreasonable, to ask persons to NOT take the property of other persons ? ]
Don't tell porkies, or speak false testimony against your neighbor. [is it unreasonable, to ask persons to NOT blatantly lie to/and against others ? ]
Don't covet what belongs to others. [is it unreasonable, to ask persons to NOT covet what others posses ? ]
covet = = yearn to possess (something belonging to someone else).
1 John 5:2
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
grievous = = (of something bad) very severe or serious.
Or is it your opinion, that those Judeo-Christian [biblical] ethics/commandments ARE [and would be] grievous to many of us - because they were adopted specifically, from Judeo-Christian [biblical] ethics/rules ?