Thread: Where Do We Draw The Line?

Originally Posted by razorjoe

As our type of government is set up it works best for the morale. once you kick out the standard for our consitution, then your government and the people go down hill. This can be traced back to our religous schools in the country, once they became apostate and turned against the Holy Bible (AVKJV1611) that showed up in the pulpits then in the congration then out in the streets then in the voting booth. That is why [B]Both( POLITICAL PARTIES ARE CORUPT!) That is why our country is going to hell they have no morale bearing!There is no spell check available at the library so excuse the spelling erors.

I believe the Romans (upon whose republic ours was at least partially modeled) called that standard of ethics and morality "virtue." Nicolo Machiavelli believed, as well as our founders who by the way studied Machiavelli among others, that "virtue" instilled in the people via education, parenting and culture was a basic necessity for the operation and survival of a republic such as ours. There can be found many examples of the decline of that virtue in our society going all the way back to the founding. I'd say that the decline is exponentially increasing. Do you see any correlation between that decline and the weakening of the U.S. republic? And I am making the assumption that there has been a definite moral decline. But "virtue" goes beyond morals. I believe the Romans included in virtue those characteristics that are often associated with heroism.