Hi Folks,
All of our legal codes are based on certain metaphysical, primarily "religious", beliefs and attitudes. Consider, by way of example, the Western, Christian based concept of "marriage" with all of its limitations such as having a single spouse and, even more limiting, of the opposite sex? This is an inherently "religious" behavioural attitude that has been forced on some people (e.g. the original Mormon Church, Cambodian refugees in North America, Muslims in North America, etc.).
How about the Anglo-Complex cultural trait of respect for individual choice and it's corollary of both "agreement to disagree", democracy and the rule of law? These derive from the weird blending of several religious traditions including, most recently, Puritan concepts (Cromwell had a bit to say about that
).
Note that I am not saying that it
should be this way, merely that it
is.
Marc
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