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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
What duck? It simply doesn't matter if the accusers aren't perfect. If something is wrong, it is wrong. By your reasoning, a person arrested for murder could get off because the arresting officer cheated on his income taxes. Trying to fob off the guilt to someone else because they aren't perfect isn't going to cut it.
Your arguments are classic textbook rationalization. When you live in a society, you have to live by the rules of society whether you like it or not and whether you think the rule is right, wrong or too insignificant to matter. To do anything else will lead to anarchy. If you can't accept the rules of the society, then either expect to have to pay the consequences for breaking the rules or leave.
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My point regarding the duck was "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" or, if you prefer, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone", or any other stone-throwing saying. Bottom line is that unless the people chastising others have never broken a law in their lives, then they have no basis for passing judgement on others. I was not "fobbing off guilt"; I was trying to make the point that people should look to their own lives first to see if they are as law-abiding as they want others to be, and if they aren't, why do they think that their words should be given any import, much less followed?
And again with the "rationalization" line. However did I guess that it would turn up again?
We shouldn't become so straight-laced as a society that anyone who disagrees with a law is immediately viewed as leading society into anarchy. That kind of thinking will destroy democracy, because it presumes that all laws are in the best interest of the public good - which we all well know that is not always the case. Besides, a little anarchy every now and then is a good thing. Shakes things up, makes people think a little more deeply, knocks their sense of certainty for a loop.
You didn't really paraphrase the old "America -love it or leave it" argument, did you?
