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Originally Posted by wheresmy50
I vote, but that's as much time as I'm currently willing to devote to changing dumb laws. So far it hasn't reaworked too well.
There's one significant differnce between breaking the law to kill (assuming you mean murder, not self defence, act of war, etc) someone and my example of one time keeping a short that was already dead. Murder is morally wrong. Someone can be criminally insane and think it's right, but they're wrong. People can be wrong. The morality of something is absolute. Also, morality aside, the consequences and enforcement are different. Plus murder isn't tasty, unless you're pretty screwed up.
What about breaking the law to do something that's not morally wrong? According to dumblaws.com, it's illegal to go to bed in MA without taking a bath. Ever do that? Does it make you want to run for state senate, or just ignore the dumb law? One is a lot easier than the other and doesn't require you to sell your soul.
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see you are back to the morality thing. morality is absolutely NOT absolute. it has always since the dawn of man differed from region to region, tribe to tribe, and religion to religion. always. ALLLLLWAAYS.
a moral is nothing but an opinion. and everyone has their
own. different cultures will always have their own traditions and morals. they are most definitely not absolute.
it's legal to "murder" people in certain parts of the world. it's perfectly acceptable. so long as there is a ""good"" reason. like... marrying outside your religion.
over all morality is nothing more than socially acceptable behavior. and generally the principles behind them lend themselves to a productive peaceful and if permitted convenient life style for those in the tribe, pack, school, country, kingdom.. what ever collective of social animals you might belong too. and generally through out nature killing one of your own is considered a no-no because it is counter productive and destabilizes the pack.
i could go on forever about that, which runs into the history of mankind. social control. failed concepts. hypothetical scenarios. etc etc but i have fishing to do.
on to dumb laws.. most of those were written over a 100 years ago and have since been canceled out by other laws. for instance have fun trying to bring a rifle to church these days.
in summary.. you are entitled to believe and do as you will. it makes you no better, nor no worse than anyone else. how ever that is breaking a law. (be it stupid or otherwise) and breaking laws isn't going to change them. how ever advocating the breaking of the law this thread was about, could very well have bad impact on the fish we love so dearly. (imagine if everyone was "accidently" killing schoolies.)
now off to fishing..