The Nehor wrote: I for one am tired of the clichéd idea that you can't legislate morality. You can't legislate anything but morality (though it may be bad morality). Laws are saying what is acceptable and what is not....a moral choice.
I don't think I understand your point. In my city, you are required to register your bicycle. According to your argument, all law is morality. How is registering your bicycle an act of morality?
The people in charge of legislating decided that requiring bikes to be registered would do more good to society as a whole then not for whatever reason. They decided this law was fair, just, and provides more benefits then drawbacks.
In the case of bad law, it tends to come from awful moral decisions. Unfair taxes generally come from avarice in which someone has justified to themselves that they have the right to take from someone else for whatever reason. It's still a moral choice.
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The Nehor wrote: I for one am tired of the clichéd idea that you can't legislate morality. You can't legislate anything but morality (though it may be bad morality). Laws are saying what is acceptable and what is not....a moral choice.
I don't think I understand your point. In my city, you are required to register your bicycle. According to your argument, all law is morality. How is registering your bicycle an act of morality?
The people in charge of legislating decided that requiring bikes to be registered would do more good to society as a whole then not for whatever reason. They decided this law was fair, just, and provides more benefits then drawbacks.
What morality is used to support the registration of bicycles? I'm not following you?
All societies have norms of behavior that come from their shared ideas, yet there can be disagreements. Of course (thankfully) in America there is disagreement upon the legislating of morality. The death penalty? Abortion? War on Drugs? Prostitution? When we have conflict between those that are attempting to legislate from a moral code from a religious text and those that come from a different starting point there will be the need to hash it out. I'd rather make my determination of behavior being harmful with a definite correlation to harm. I am not swayed by those that shriek about adultery, sex toys, birth control, etc... as being harmful to the larger society. I tend to move away from the government wishing to impose a religious view of legislation upon people because an ancient text lays it out as necessarily harmful.
The Nehor wrote:I for one am tired of the clichéd idea that you can't legislate morality. You can't legislate anything but morality (though it may be bad morality). Laws are saying what is acceptable and what is not....a moral choice.
You are confusing ethics with morals again, nehor.
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