(May 8, 2016 at 11:18 am)Excited Penguin Wrote:(May 8, 2016 at 10:54 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: Well if there are people split on the morality of abortion who's morality are they using to base the law on?Their own(collectively), or rather, their majority's.
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.
No laws are not based on what the majority moral opinion is, if that was the case we would all be living under biblical Christian law.
What are you talking about! the law could just as easily say drive on the left side of road like in other countries, there is no more moral side of the road.