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Originally Posted by sabahatbhutta
Should I put it as Method of Establishing rule of Law.
As you said in your previous post, morality differs from person to person, so, its not at all confusing.
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I think we have confused a bit too much the concept of Welfare State with that of secular democratic ways of establishing a welfare state
. If you take welfare state in general terms than the ultimate goal of any ideology is to establish social justice in the society and eventually form a welfare state. The way secular democracies do it is they don't enforce any particular code of moral and social values on the whole society; e.g. Christian code of values or Islamic code of values or English code of values etc. Instead they recognize diversity and vest the power of legislation in bodies supposedly 'people's representative legislatures'. Now when you have a people's representative legislature, it is bound to make sure that no particular system of values will take over and everyone will have a say in lawmaking, because a big population of people will always hold variety of beliefs and will follow variety of ideologies, same will be the composition of the legislature. This is the secular democratic way of doing things. Rule of Law is essential for any state, if the state is fascist than the difference is only that law is dictated by the leader recognized by the state, and if the state is religious the law, or general theme of what laws should look like, is defined by divine authority, Allah (SWT)
. Moral values and Law are two different things. Different people will believe in different set of moral values, but law will always be one.
And one more thing, us Pakistanis are primitive people belonging to variety of cultures still struggling to civilize so we don't have any law
. So don't imagine Pakistani society when making any comparison
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