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[Professor]

In my opinion, morals are more personal, and morays are the socialized collective of a felt sense of morality in a group--and our government has a hard time juggling the two. If you start with boiling water and add roasted bones and some celery..... and reduce... you will eventually make demi glace... which as we all know, is the basic ingredient for human kindness and love. Don't kill, don't steal, don't harm another's _______..... those things are the basics, the simplest reduction of all the shit we believe culturally. The government's roll, in my opinion, is to help define the gray area... things like intellectual property, and online money scams. It's still stealing, but nothing tangible was actually taken. The government provides us with consequences for actions--the problem is that we (the US and many others) are becoming or have been for a long time, a multicultural society. So it's hard for one group to lead over a group with many different priorities of offense. In some cultures, rape is more tolerated or, let's say, ignored. Whereas here, it is not tolerated... but even in that intolerance, if a male is in charge of the crime, he will have a different point of view than a female with the same tasks. A female in the US STILL has to be the one on trial in a rape case. So it's never really that cut and dry. We'd like to think so, but not really. White people still have privilege here. Racism still exists, hate still exists.. but hate crimes are illegal. I believe it is impossible to govern based on morality as long as we all have different senses of morals. The other issue, is that even if we said.. "DO OVER" and we reset the rules, and then sent out a survey of what we'd each like to see as our government, only a fraction of the people would actually participate in it. We will never actually make 100% of the people happy.

Bottom line--it's really hard to lead people, which is why so many of our presidents are not actually leaders.