Morality and Law in Politics

Not that I am holding him up as an example to follow, but Asa Hutchinson, the Republican governor of Arkansas, recently tried to veto a Bill preventing medical intervention with Trans-children on the basis that Government shouldn't be involved in these sorts of decisions. It raises an interesting question.

Should Governments be involved in everything, and especially in making laws that are designed to enforce morality issues?

I'm going to try and start the ball rolling by saying, "No."

So here are my thoughts on this. Governments should be there to do three things. One to manage the Country's international relationships, two, to create and enforce laws on a secular basis to enshrine protections for the rights the society that they oversee has determined that its people have. And finally, three, provide a system for dispute resolution between its citizens or between itself and its citizens.

Laws should not be based on religious or moralistic reasons simply because such things are independent to each individual and no person has the right to push their ideological morality onto any other person, which is what this use of Government is attempting to do.

Change my mind.

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