(May 10, 2016 at 7:03 am)Mr.wizard Wrote:(May 9, 2016 at 7:24 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: I think you're mistaking society's morality for an utopic one that doesn't exist. I never described the latter, only the former.
Huh? I made no mention of a utopic society, are you sure you responded to the right person?
Law is a system of rules that are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior. Laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive through decrees and regulations, or by judges through binding precedent, normally in common law jurisdictions.
Laws do not tell us what we think is right and wrong, they only tell us what is legal. For instance I think adultery is immoral but I don't think it should be illegal.
What you think is irrelevant. Adultery is illegal in many states and that makes it decidedly immoral on a societal level. I know what laws are but they are also enforcers of morality, but you'd need a brain to figure that out.
