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...David B. Lat's column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...when this group does not want engineering. Such laws can easily (and there are innumerable precedents in history) degenerate into a tyranny of the majority by those who believe everyone's morality fell out of the sky and landed on Mount Sinai, and those who don't. Unlike what Lat said, we should a priori be skeptical and hesitant toward laws which restrict the freedom of a group which wants to be left alone. --Joshua E. Seims...
...reading David B. Lat's column "Imposing Morality Is Fun" (Nov. 28, 1995) I was struck not so much by the supposition that "all laws rely on certain assumptions that are distinctly moral in nature," but rather by the morality of absolutism which his support for a ban on divorce demonstrates. "There are many different moralities in our pluralistic society. What we must realize is that some moralities are simply better than others." Since I do not particularly take issue with this claim. I would like to point out some of the problems I see with the position...
...experiences of a lifetime can alter a situation dramatically. If a woman discovers that her face has been permanently damaged by a violent husband, should she try to work it out to maintain the institution of marriage? I am being slightly unfair in this point, since both Lat and the Pope concede that physical separation may be necessary in the case of abusive relationships. If a woman who has been beaten by her husband meets a good man and wants to remarry within the Church, what should...
What would you say to them, Mr. Lat, when they realize that, despite much hard work, they have failed? Would you tell them to be miserable for the rest of their lives? In its own way, that sort of mental torment can be just as destructive as physical abuse...