Living in this current environment of over regulation is our punishment for our own lack and the lack of our previous generations for not realizing that we needed to do a better job of teaching morals to each other, our kids and the kids in their kids’ circle.

The reasons that kids are getting pregnant as young teenagers is not because of the Catholic church’s policy on condoms. That is about as intelligent as saying that the reason that there are murders is because of the nation’s gun policy. Both are absolutely false.

Kids have sex at a younger and younger age because they lack the moral fiber to abstain from it. They are surrounded by signs all around them that actually make them want to engage in it sooner. I am not talking about pornography either. I am talking about how it has become a popularity contest for young teenage girls to get knocked up. It makes them feel like they are more mature than their peers. It makes them feel like they have grown up faster than everyone else. You and I both know that kids hate being seen as teenagers. They want to be seen as adults. Look at how popular one of these kids becomes when they get pregnant. Kids who grow up in an environment where mom and dad both openly despise actions like this are much more likely to not engage in it. But, the parents have to make that viewpoint clear by practicing what they preach.

Look at how popular these kids become when they get a tatoo before anyone else their age does. This is the insanity that needs to be stopped. These kids are making poor decisions that have life-long implications. These kids need better guidance. Parents are just as bad. How many younger parents ran out and got tatoos because the kids were all doing it? The parents want to be young and cool as much as the kids want to be mature and older. Parents who do this sort of thing and brag about it are just as misguided morally as the kids they are raising. By engaging in stupid acts like this they are silently condoning all different types of rebellious and bad behavior in their children and their children’s friends. It is stupid, stupid and stupid.

People need to be reminded that it is in their best interests and the best interests of everyone around them if they live morally. They have forgotten why it is important. All of these laws are the repercussions of people’s forgetfulness. We should not need laws to tell us not to throw a beer bottle at someone. We should not need laws to tell people that they cannot steal from their neighbors or their customers. We should not need laws that say two homosexuals can or cannot get married. We should not need laws that say rich people have to give away more than half their money so that it can be redistributed to poor people. We should not need laws to convince people to buy health insurance. We should not need laws to keep bankers from lending money to people who cannot possibly afford to pay it back.

Things are out of control. It is the lack of morality that is at the heart of the problem.

I agree that there are too many law, but perhaps more energy should be spent revising and simplifying existing laws… and repealing the “safety” laws which treat adults as if they were children. They’re the reason I have to drink beer out of a plastic bottle at ball games and MUST wear a seatbelt. How about giving Americans some responsibility for once? …or giving them a chance to think for themselves?

I think you misunderstood the whole point. It should be common sense not to steal other people’s work.

If people willingly chose to do the right thing instead of being selfish with total disregard for others, then we wouldn’t need laws to prevent them from doing it.

Out of all my teaches in high school only one had common sense: He was not afraid of copyright laws. He made a copy of the textbook for everyone in the class. Instead of getting everyone an expensive $75 dollar copy of a disc, he just bought 3 cent discs and copied it onto them.

Too many laws protect stupid people…