Rules

I heard a comedian talking about the uproar involved when the debate was on about the legal right to burn a flag. He talked about the simple fact of being allowed to do something does not mean you should do something. It has lingered in my mind as an interesting overview towards where we are standing as a society. We seem to clamor for regulation and rules to prevent that which we don't want to see happen all the while it seems interesting to question why rules are needed to prevent desire to do so. I am not so naive as to assume all citizens live by the same standards and morals, but it would seem more and more we request to have even the simplest of codes regulated in law. Some have outcried that this is the slow stripping of our civil rights. That may be a little of a stretch, but it does make me wonder.