Tag: MORALITY

Character may regulate behavior. Virtue forms citizens!

Regardless of what the law says, if a substantial portion of the public disagrees with it, many will disobey the law. When law gets too far ahead of (or behind) public opinion, it loses the respect it needs to be effective. 

The characters in "Blood Meridian" began movement in a certain wrong direction on a moral paradigm, a direction toward which they continued with tragic consequences. It’s a lesson to which we’d do well to adhere in our own time.

Life is often about picking one’s own poison. Sometimes there are no purely good choices, only better or worse.

Many voters want better leaders, but instead of voting for this, they’re happy to be bought off by those they think will give them something.