Perhaps legislators deeply involved in legislative
affairs could immediately come up with practical laws they would like enacted
based upon their in-depth appreciation of the intricacies of current
affairs. Not being tied down by the
necessities of practicality, I can think of many laws I would like
enacted. They include a law banning
positional prejudice in the payment of wages (thus raising the wages of the
likes of clerks and migrant workers); a law banning substances that ruin lives
though addiction (thus banning alcoholic beverages and tobacco); a law banning
guns (they would be legal only for law enforcement officers); a law demanding
the immediate release of all people wrongly convicted who are incarcerated or
on death row (thus necessitating a law requiring the production and use of totally
reliable polygraphs); a law banning the use of military action unless earnest and
full attempts at negotiations and other compliance measures have failed; a law allowing military action only after
death and other casualty count estimates—especially of the innocent—are
graphically predicted; a law requiring all those who will be parents to
undergo a six-week indoctrination of the proper way to raise children with love
and discipline; a law banning excessive compensation that corrupts and ruins
the health and welfare of the fortunate; a law establishing the Golden Rule as the bedrock
of all other rules; a law establishing conception as the beginning of life—and
other laws requiring the recognition of simple facts; a law requiring honesty
and truthfulness in all substantive matters; a law requiring males to sign notarized legal
and binding commitments to women and any resulting children before having even
casual sexual intercourse—thus recognizing causality and responsibility; a law requiring all those dealing in deadly
street drugs to write a weekly report on the misery, including birth defects,
to which they have personally contributed; a law requiring the religiously
faithful to affirm that the foundation of their beliefs is in fact faith (not
provable fact) and a law requiring atheists to do the same; a law endorsing
freedom of religion while mandating the recognition of a set of principles outlining
the inadequacies of one-dimensional materialism and selfishness—requiring, in
other words, the simple recognition on the part of individuals of a social
compact from which by birth in society they are party to; a law detailing the
benefits of a work ethic as an expression of creativity and love. (As with all legislation, any one of the aforementioned laws could be
averted by a simple revision of human nature.) I look forward to all these laws being enacted
in the near future for I am sure they portend neither any difficulties nor controversy.
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