Quote:Excuse my mini-rant: a pet peeve of mine - of course you can legislate morality - that's what laws do. Now, will many break the law? Yes. But that doesn't mean you take the law off the books. (And we can have a long talk about if they should be on the books in the first place.)

 

I think your view is common and similar to many, many of us. We want to do right/good, we're just not sure it's feasible. Or maybe we're just lazy.

 

I think most of us subscribe to the standard American outlook - we assume some form of technology will be devised at the last minute to save us.