LV Law

I can think of no better argument for the absurdity of attempting to legislate morality than Las Vegas. Think about it. Sin City is theoretically where one goes to do whatever one wants that probably can’t (or shouldn’t) be done anywhere else. This all started with the legalization of gambling when it wasn’t ubiquitous, and even though gambling is now available in one form or another virtually anywhere the multitudes still throng here. Why? Well, as the Las Vegas Visitors Authority has so persuasively put it, what happens here stays here. I imagine that even O.J. fell into the trap of thinking that armed robbery might not seem as wrong here. Yet, the lawmakers in Nevada have their hands full making sure that what may arguably be immoral is still legal. Gambling, as far as I can tell, is a non-violent form of stealing. Sex is openly marketed in any number of ways, even in Clark County where prostitution is supposedly illegal. The normative taboos against “drugs” are all in place so that, I guess, the conspicuous consumption of alcohol assumes the air of respectability by being legal almost anywhere anytime. Yes, Satan can quote Scripture and Las Vegas has laws. Among the many benign commandments relegated to oblivion here is to have no other gods, because it’s so plain to see that that would be bad for business.