Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Super Bowl

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
> > Some of the ads were fun or funny.  I really don't like the way they 
> > use animals in beer ads.  It is obvious that this attracts the 
> > attention of children and shows them that beer is a very highly-valued 
> > commodity, the ads that include humans are designed to show that normal 
> > young men are obsessed with beer -- they'll do anything to get beer. 
> > We're supposed to lighten up and just laugh it off, but they are doing 
> > this for a reason and it is working, so it really isn't all that funny. 
> > They get teenage boys to think that they must want beer in order to be 
> > cool with their friends.
>
>
> With thinking like that, you should consider joining up with the Family 
> Research Council http://www.frc.org. :-)
>
> (That is, of course I agree with you, but your thinking comes off as 
> surprisingly like that of a social conservative!)


I'm sure they have some good ideas but for all the wrong reasons.  For 
example, one might oppose sex before marriage because of sexually 
transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and other good reasons 
(emotional, social, etc.), but not "because God says so!"  I also would 
oppose laws prohibiting sex before marriage.  That doesn't mean that I 
think sex before marriage is a good idea.  In fact, if I were to be a 
leader of a social movement, one of my rules would be "no sex before 
marriage."

So I differ from most social conservatives on the reasons for social rules 
and I differ with them on what should be put into law.  It might be good, 
for example, to have a rule against abortions for birth control (but 
allowing abortion for severe defects, health of the mother, etc.), but I 
wouldn't make a law restricting abortion rights.  Not everyone will like 
my rules, so let them live their way while we live our way.  In the end, 
the best rules win.

Mike

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