Braxton McCoy

In fact, my wife still bitches at me to this day because I had forgotten about this But I guess the day before we got married I went to a trade show to do Advocacy for this stuff and so she had to go to a trade show for a few hours and she's still pissed about it You know eight or ten years later, you know So I joined this organization

And I get in, voted into state leadership.

I actually didn't want to be in state leadership.

I just wanted to try to provide the perspective of someone that didn't live in Salt Lake, you know, like a liberal perspective.

I wanted to have our voices involved.

So I was going to these meetings and, you know, pushing my... What do you mean you got elected into state leadership?

The organization has an election process.

So they elected me and put me in a Southern Utah chapter board leader or whatever title.

They had, and again, I didn't even, this is not something I desired in any way.

So that meant I needed to go to this rendezvous in Missoula.

So I went up there and attended some of their workshops, hung out at the beer garden, went to the lectures, all that kind of stuff.

But at one point there was this ethics panel and it was some very smart people up there on this ethics panel.

And they were deliberating on the ethics, the difference between morality and legislation and other nerd stuff.

And when it came question and answer time, I got a mic and was just like, I actually don't think you guys understand the difference between morals and laws at all.

And I presented a scenario that was basically if a deer is stuck in a fence,

If you shoot it without permission, you're breaking the law.

But if you leave this thing, whose leg is completely ripped up and is going to die anyway, to suffer, then you've cut against your morality.

So there's just a real easy delineation between the two things.

And I was saying, you guys are trying to argue that ethics are foisted on us by laws, and I think the exact opposite is true.

Laws should reflect our ethics and morals.