Not A Poll: Does Motivation Affect Morality?

[Mr.wizard]

Just because there is a rule that tells you that you can do something it doesn't make it moral or immoral. For instance, Abortion is legal and there are people who consider it to be moral and people who consider it to be immoral.

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?

Also laws like driving on the right side of the road is based on morality how?