Not A Poll: Does Motivation Affect Morality?

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They are a set of rules agreed by society, with punishments. That's all they are. It's not a statement of what is moral or immoral. If you think morality is dictated to everyone by the people making the laws, then your idea of morality is far removed from mine that were not talking about the same thing.

How could laws enforce what is moral, exactly? It doesn't distinguish between neutral and moral in any way. So at best you could say it's a way of punishing "immorality". If you're just saying what is immoral is what the law says is punishable then the word is redundant and useless. It's just another way of saying "punishable by society". But a society has many things which are generally consider immoral but which are not punished, or even moral things that are punished.