Heavens Marilyn, I said on the other thread:

<< For children, sure in some if not all instances, get them out of detention. >>

So what’s with your scurrilous misrepresentation of my views here??

You're not going to like this, but hey I AGREE with you (more or less) regarding kids in detention!

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Runner, I don’t understand why you would be against a polly’s code of conduct.

Isn’t a code of conduct analogous to the ten commandments or the bible overall in the way that it guides and governs the moral, ethical and practical way that Christians live and reinforces integrity where there might be a tendency to wander off-course?

Ludwig

'Isn’t a code of conduct analogous to the ten commandments or the bible overall in the way that it guides and governs the moral, ethical and practical way that Christians live and reinforces integrity where there might be a tendency to wander off-course?'

The thing that Christians are often labelled with is hypocrisy. Sometimes the accusers are right and other times they are displaying their Christophobic nature.

The ten commandments along with the rest of the Jewish laws showed that no man except Jesus was able to keep God's holy law. Even a man lusting after a woman not his wife is considered an adulterer. That makes 99 per cent of men adulterers at heart. In other words the laws did not change a person's heart condition. Only God can do that.

The ten commandmennts are second to none as far as an ethical base for a nation but don't change individual hearts or behaviour.

A code of conduct would not of stopped Ms Gillard from stabbing a PM in the back or lying to the electorate. A code of conduct would not stop Mr Abbott from pretending he beleives in the gw fantasy even kn ow he does not. Honesty and integrity come through character and not codes of conducts.

Politicians and much of society are good at appearing to conform to rules and regulations when often the hearts are rotton. A code of conduct would not prevent the farce in Parliament now with the Thomson affair. Bottom line is a code of conduct would only benefit the additional people employed to come up with the creed. We already have numerous Government agencies that are suppose to deal with racism, sexism, EEO, carbon police, etc etc etc

The only thing that might improve the current state of affairs with a Government with little to no morals is an election.

Gosh runner, do you train with Tony?

Runner, you wrote:

<< The ten commandments along with the rest of the Jewish laws showed that no man except Jesus was able to keep God's holy law >>

Really?? No man was able to uphold the holy law? That’s incredible! Well in that case surely the holy law was fundamentally flawed.

<< Even a man lusting after a woman not his wife is considered an adulterer. That makes 99 per cent of men adulterers at heart. >>

Yes exactly. It is just human nature for men to find women other than their partner attractive and to have ‘evil’ lustful thoughts.

Seems like the holy law is definitely at fault here if it prevents such a thing.

<< A code of conduct would not of stopped Ms Gillard from stabbing a PM in the back or lying to the electorate >>

Gillard didn’t stab Rudd in the back. Rudd performed so dismally as PM that his colleagues saw the need to replace him. Gillard as deputy PM was the obvious choice. But yes, a code of conduct would not have prevented this… and rightly so! Rudd needed to go!

<< Honesty and integrity come through character and not codes of conducts. >>

But how do you know who has real honesty and integrity before we elect them? We don’t. So we need a good code of conduct to keep the majority of people elected to parliament with little or selective honesty and integrity in line.

<< The only thing that might improve the current state of affairs with a Government with little to no morals is an election >>

No it wouldn’t, because the opposition is just as bad. The only thing that will improve the current dismal state of affairs is a good code of conduct…and a rigorous upholding thereof!