Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
My cousin constantly posts to Facebook how upset she\u2019s become about gun violence. She insists we must Do Something by which she means Universal Background Checks. My response: moral problems do not have technological solutions.<\/p>\n
The solution to the problem of alcoholism is not prohibition, but sobriety.<\/p>\n
The solution to the problem of teenage pregnancy is not abortion, but abstinence.<\/p>\n
The solution to the problem of murder is not universal background checks, but the Sixth Commandment.<\/p>\n
Liberals are terrified of morality because it\u2019s judgmental so they resort to ineffectual alternatives then complain when they fail. I fear I lack sympathy for intelligent people acting like idiots. <\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That is the difference, of course, The difference between liberals and conservatives; conservatism offers relatively simple answers to most problems \u2013 but those simple answers require a lot of work. Morality is easy to understand, and hard to achieve. <\/p>\n
Liberalism offers a byzantine array of “easy answers” \u2013 Heck, let’s just have everyone pay for everyone else’s health care!<\/i> – that really don’t work as answers. But boy, they sure seem simple upfront!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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