Texan Hotrodders
10-10-2004, 05:35
Just because I'm an equal opportunity annoyer...I've annoyed some of the liberals enough, now on to some of the conservatives. ;)
Premises:
1.) God desires for all to choose good of their own free will. Christians are supposed to facilitate God's will.
2.) Free will. That means God wants them to make a choice on their own, not by coercion.
3.) Rules that are enforced are coercion. Violence is coercion.
4.) When you enforce rules or and/or perpetrate violence to force people to choose or do the good, you are denying them the chance to fulfill God's desire and do the good of their own free will.
5.) When you defy God's will, you are immoral.
Conclusion:
It is immoral to remove a person's right to choose (or not choose) to be moral.
Applications:
1.) Pacifism: Any violence done to another person is coercing them, even in the case where you are preventing them from choosing to be immoral by defending yourself from an attack and forcing them to be good. So violence is immoral.
2.) Anarchism: Governments are built around laws. Laws are enforced rules, a form of coercion. This coercion, even if making persons do good, is taking away their free choice to do good. So governments are immoral.
Premises:
1.) God desires for all to choose good of their own free will. Christians are supposed to facilitate God's will.
2.) Free will. That means God wants them to make a choice on their own, not by coercion.
3.) Rules that are enforced are coercion. Violence is coercion.
4.) When you enforce rules or and/or perpetrate violence to force people to choose or do the good, you are denying them the chance to fulfill God's desire and do the good of their own free will.
5.) When you defy God's will, you are immoral.
Conclusion:
It is immoral to remove a person's right to choose (or not choose) to be moral.
Applications:
1.) Pacifism: Any violence done to another person is coercing them, even in the case where you are preventing them from choosing to be immoral by defending yourself from an attack and forcing them to be good. So violence is immoral.
2.) Anarchism: Governments are built around laws. Laws are enforced rules, a form of coercion. This coercion, even if making persons do good, is taking away their free choice to do good. So governments are immoral.