oldNslow wrote on 02/14/20 at 07:17:36:No need to get all riled up. I was just answering your question.
It was a good answer, leading to questions I hadn't been asking myself.
In Texas, where I live, sex with animals is legal- one may "do pretty much whatever you want"; what we
should do for ourselves, our community, and our environment often diverges from what we
can do. The Republic of Texas once made slavery legal, entered a civil war over it- placing those who favored
can in direct conflict with those choosing
should.
Don't entirely loose faith in humanity, though- only a fraction of Texans chose, through force or willfull blindness, to steal the lives of fellow human beings. I reckon we are afforded some insight into those historic choices now, with the consequences of headless pollution being so ever-present and demonstrable.
The question is not who we are when society imposes order, but who we choose to be at liberty.