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QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Can the government dictate morals?
By Maggie Koerth
Kansan staff writer
Stephen Egbert
The goal of all religions is to provide answers, especially to questions of morality and the divine. In order to gain a better understanding of what people believe, the University Daily Kansan will feature a question of the week in which we will ask members of various religions a moral or religious question. We hope the answers will illuminate the differences and sometimes surprising similarities between the beliefs of different people.
KIMBERLY THOMPSON/KANSAN
Shu-fang Ni
Q. To what extent does the government have the right to dictate morality?
A Stephen Egbert Campus Advisor, Latter-day Saint Student Association
I frequently worry that when people speak of government passing laws on moral issues they really mean "government passing laws to restrict behavior that I don't think should be restricted." Currently these topics seem to revolve primarily around abortion, sexual behavior and drug legalization. Past issues have included Sunday closing laws,
liquor laws and numerous others.
labor laws and numerous other From my point of view, all law is grounded on someone's view of what is moral. The real question, as I see it, is not whether the government has the right to pass laws on moral issues — of course it does — but where the lines should be drawn and what stands the government should take. It certainly is true that you can't force people to be good or "moral," as our experience with Prohibition clearly demonstrates. On the other hand, I believe it is important for us, through our government, to pass laws that represent our best efforts to take principled stands on issues, even
if they are controversial.
Having said all that, however, I have to say that when push comes to shove. I will always come down on the side of favoring personal freedom and agency over unnecessarily restrictive and confining laws.
A. Shu-tang Ni
President, Amitabha Buddhist
Student Association
A. Shu-fang Nj
Government does have the legal right to dictate morality, but the question is to what extent and how. Nowadays, we are dealing with all types of complicated issues. For example, abortion, capital punishment . . etc. There are many ongoing arguments toward those issues in many countries.
If all human beings follow these principles, our world will be more peaceful. They are also the principles that all governments can follow in establishing laws.
If you have an idea for a Question of the Week you can contact Koerth at mkoeorth@kansan.com.
The five basic moral disciplines in Buddhism are: Not to kill, not to steal, not to engage in illicit sex, not to lie or slander, not to take drugs.
Another question here is how government can dictate morality. Education! Education is the fundamental. Here education is viewed as a broader term. Government in today's society should be the moral-education promoter instead of the punishment developer. Government must understand that all of the social problems come from three kinds of vicious thought: greed, anger and delusion. That's why we apply the five moral disciplines to deal with vicious thought. It is only through proper education that people can retrieve their own good nature by themselves.
Student Senate to pass out info at game
ByCarolineBoyer Kansan staff writer
Students waiting to get into the Kansas-Texas Tech basketball game at 3 p.m. tomorrow will be greeted by members of Student Senate handing out information on tuition for a second time.
This time the information they pass out at Allen Fieldhouse will be in the form of a newspaper, featuring some articles and editorials written by members of Senate and a tuition sound-off. Senate passed out handballs at the Kansas-Missouri basketball game last month.
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"We actually wanted to do a
newspaper-type handout at the Missouri game, but we didn't have time to get the funding for it approved," said Justin Mills, student body president.
"It will say 'Unfair tuition increases make me want to throw a chair,' in reference to Bobby Knight," Gilmore said. Knight, Texas Tech coach, who once threw
The handbills that student senators passed out at the Kansas-Missouri game had statistical information about tuition increases and budget cuts, Gilmore said. The outside of the newspaper for tomorrow's game will protest the unfairness of the tuition increases, while the inside will have information letting students know how to become more active in the issues concerning tuition.
Mills said Senate wanted a newspaper format so that students could hold it up at the game when the opposing team was announced. Senators plan to have an anti-Texas Tech ad on the back page, said Julia Gilmore, community affairs director for Senate.
"I know I was really curious about what the handbills were," Marchin said. "If it's a whole paper, I don't know if students will read all of it, but I think they'll look at it."
a chair out onto the court to show his displeasure with referees.
Madelaine Marchin, Manhattan sophomore, said she didn't know whether the newspapers would draw students' attention
Senate is using money from its printing budget to pay for the papers. Gilmore said she had arranged for the presses of the Lawrence Journal-World to print 1,000 papers for about $500.
Senate will begin passing the papers out around 12:30 p.m.
Contact Boyer at
conrad.boyer
choyer@kansan.com. This story
was edited by Justin Guenley.
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