Quoting Khaled Alkotob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > > In the U.S. the legal age for individual responsibility is 18 in > > most cases. > > Amazing how crossing a date line matures a person and makes them a full > grown responsible wise adult.
Well like the difference between the inorganic, biological, social and intellectual levels, you have to draw the line somewhere. > [Platt] > > For most intents and purposes in the U.S. at age 18. > > And there lies the paradox, turning that magic age does not make > instantly that mature adult. Legally yes, but not wisdom wise. > > After all you can vote before you can drink, I find that a little > disturbing. Me, too. > Look Platt, I agree with you about freedom of choice and free market. > Some laws have to be on the books to protect us all. > > But how do you go about stopping the Ana nicole smith story of making the > headlines. No I am not asking for censorship, but enough already of this > celebrity gossip BS. Stop? Turn off the TV. But, I get your point. > The masses want it. and the media is dishing it out. Free market at work. > So who is to dictate the morality on such stuff. In the Victorian age there was no worship of slut celebrity. There was a sense of propriety, enforced by a culture that recognized, as does Pirsig, the temptations of biological values. I don't think many today even know the meaning of propriety. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
