You don't fight against murdering kids who are inconvenient because you think it's a clever stratagem. You fight against murdering kids who are inconvenient because murdering kids who are inconvenient is evil incarnate.
The clever stratagem would be to allow your enemies to murder their unborn kids in massive droves while encouraging your allies to have kids, and eventually the problem goes away on its own. But that would be really evil.
The clever stratagem would be to allow your enemies to murder their unborn kids in massive droves while encouraging your allies to have kids, and eventually the problem goes away on its own. But that would be really evil.
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That's a good point. If you have a strong and good culture then you don't need a strong government because people will do the right thing without the spectre of government. With a bad culture, you can have unlimited punishment and people will refuse to do the right thing.
Everything is downstream from culture.
The founders of the American experiment knew this. Franklin said, "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
https://thefederalist.com/2017/04/28/the-american-founders-knew-a-virtuous-republic-requires-virtuous-people/
> the founders were far from being concerned only with low bourgeois virtues, such as acquisitiveness, and comfortable self-preservation. In fact, they considered “virtue as a condition of freedom and a requirement of the laws of nature.”
The founders of the American experiment knew this. Franklin said, "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
https://thefederalist.com/2017/04/28/the-american-founders-knew-a-virtuous-republic-requires-virtuous-people/
> the founders were far from being concerned only with low bourgeois virtues, such as acquisitiveness, and comfortable self-preservation. In fact, they considered “virtue as a condition of freedom and a requirement of the laws of nature.”