Essay On Government Overstepping

We hear the question all of the time, “is the government overstepping its legislative power of morality?” So, I will ask you, is our government overstepping, is it not stringent enough, or do you even care whether the government is legislating morality? Firstly, what do I mean by our government legislating morality? Think of it as an all-encompassing parent. If one of the children (in this case the children would be us, the citizens) misbehaves they are punished, corrected, and then allowed to join the other children again. The analogy of the misbehaved child is our criminal justice system. I do not mean by this analogy that the state should replace the family. I am merely turning the citizens and government into individuals to explain authoritative power. If a citizen commits a crime, they are judged, punished, corrected, and then sent back into society. This ingrains a sense of fear, a fear of punishment, whereas model citizens are praised and allowed to be left alone and do as they please within the boundaries of the law. There are extremes to legislating
Utilitarianism is an ethical code unfit to have any basis in modern day society. Regrettably, I have only covered one issue within legislated morality. There are countless others that must be covered and discredited to prove they have no basis within reality. Anarchy would be one issue I did not address, but hopefully my predecessors will finish were I have left off. Abortion, assisted suicide, recreational drug use, governmental over reach all fall into legislating morality and need to be addressed. As for Mills view of legislated morality, I could not fathom the amount of depth I could have gone on the subject. Factors such as how our society would act, what our economic systems would be, or even how our education system would be within Mills model is something I did not even address, but is very important to discrediting Mills