Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: sarmadThe solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

Why should ethics be the responsibility of government? That just brings more "nanny state" interference in everyone's lives. Ethics should be personal and exercised on the individual level.

I'm sorry, that's nonsense. A good deal of what government is all about has always been regulating unethical behaviour, in the interests of the community, because unethical behaviour damages the common good, and promoting the common good is what government is for. We're just so used to certain kinds of laws around ethical behaviour that we forget that's what they are. So for instance, laws against fraud are laws about ethical behaviour. Contract laws are laws about ethical behaviour. Arguably practically every law . . . murder, rape, theft, on and on . . . is a law about ethical behaviour. One could argue that laws about traffic aren't about ethics . . . but in a way even they are if you think the laws are rules to try to keep drivers and pedestrians safe, violating them makes people less safe, and making people less safe is an unethical thing to do.

In any case, where exactly has decades of whinging about the "nanny state" and getting rid of it wherever possible brought the United States? The US was a better place to live when it had more "nanny state" and that's no co-incidence. So was Canada, so was Britain.