Kirk Cameron Quotes
As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.
Cameron, Kirk. Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure. Camfam Studios, 2012.
Olasky and many religiously oriented analysts, believe that public shame shapes and controls behavior and if a society does not have a set of recognized norms, and every person is free to determine his own propriety, there will be moral degeneration and there is no way to produce desirable social and political outcomes. This is perhaps the longest political and philosophical ongoing debate. In a society people cannot be free if there is fear, coercion and chaos with public safety primary. But how can this be produced unless there are generally accepted moral and behavioral codes like that of a religion. And then if one has that, and it is dominant, how can someone be free from the coercion of that morality or religious code? There must be freedom not to believe. Or must there be? Many say yes. Many others, especially orthodox leaders of most religions believe, No. Christian, Jewish and Muslim fundamentalists all say No, but then they insist that the norm be theirs.
Saloth Sar Pol Pot. His view was that any small merchant or tradesman running a business was a capitalist, and all educated were enemies of the people. He moved entire populations out of the cities into the countryside where they would live as peasants or be murdered as about 20% of the entire population as. Therefore, in his warped view, the capitalists could no longer “control” Cambodia.
Kirk Thomas Cameron is an American actor. He is known for his role as Mike Seaver on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains (1985–1992), a role for which he was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards.