- Because avoiding sexual immorality should not be optional and should have the law's support
- Because a law is more likely to be obeyed if it punishes forbidden behaviour
- Because a law is more likely to be obeyed if the forbidden behaviour is generally agreed to be immoral
- Because a law is more likely to be obeyed if it is all of the above and believed to be from the most powerful entity conceivable whose wisdom affirms an obvious universal and eternal truth from generation to generation
- Because it would dispense with the need to relearn the lessons of history and biology, of nature and nurture over and over again
THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
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