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John Davinier:
Religion cannot be the only guardian of our morality. Of course not. There is self-responsibility. And failing that, Does the law not have a duty? Does the bench and parliament not have a duty to uphold and create the Laws that progress our morality, not... not retard it, if not to protect us from others, then to protect us from ourselves? Laws that allow us to diminish the humanity of anybody are not laws. They are frameworks for crime. And, quite frankly, I really do not care if you, as an individual, are without character or conscience, but a land whose laws sanction, not control, the barbarous among its citizens, that is a country whose hope is lost
Religion cannot be the only guardian of our morality. Of course not. There is self-responsibility. And failing that, Does the law not have a duty? Does the bench and parliament not have a duty to uphold and create the Laws that progress our morality, not... not retard it, if not to protect us from others, then to protect us from ourselves? Laws that allow us to diminish the humanity of anybody are not laws. They are frameworks for crime. And, quite frankly, I really do not care if you, as an individual, are without character or conscience, but a land whose laws sanction, not control, the barbarous among its citizens, that is a country whose hope is lost
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religion not being the only guardian of our morality
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Of course not There is self responsibility
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And failing that does the law not have a duty
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Does the Bench and Parliament not have a duty to uphold and create the laws
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that progress our morality not retard it
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If not to protect us from others then to protect us from ourselves
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Laws that allow us to diminish the humanity of anybody are not laws
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They are frameworks for crime
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I do not care if you as an individual are without character or conscience
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Movie Summary
The mixed-race daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in eighteenth ce
Actors
John Davinier
Lord Mansfield
