(May 8, 2016 at 10:54 am)Mr.wizard Wrote:Their own(collectively), or rather, their majority's.(May 8, 2016 at 10:52 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Rules aren't moral or immoral, they are the mechanism through which a certain morality is conveyed to the world. The contents of that morality is what you can analyze, but the laws themselves, conceptually, are simply a symptom of it. But symptoms are also the identifying facet of things.
Well if there are people split on the morality of abortion who's morality are they using to base the law on?
Quote:Also laws like driving on the right side of the road is based on morality how?If you don't drive on the right side of the road, you run the high risk of producing casualties and damage, which isn't allowed within the moral system that dictates those laws.