RE: Mother and son in New Mexico face jail time for incestuous relationship
August 11, 2016 at 4:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2016 at 5:44 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 11, 2016 at 4:18 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(August 11, 2016 at 3:56 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: ..I'm completely capable of thinking other people should do something without wanting it to become law.
I think it's moral to remain faithful to your partner(s). I think people should remain faithful to their partner(s). I don't think that this should be a law.
I think it's moral to take care of your body and not spend all day drinking booze. I think people should take care of their bodies and not spend all day drinking booze. I don't think that this should be a law.
Just because you think other folks should act a certain way because you might find it moral, doesn't mean you want it to have anything to do with what is legal and what isn't.
That's about as simply as I can put it, but I think it's been pretty clearly delineated by several other folks earlier in this thread.
For a specific example, take Joe Biden on abortion. He opposes it personally on moral grounds, but doesn't want to force his morals onto people via law.
That's mistaking my argument for something it's not.
I'm saying all laws are moral, not that all morals are laws.
There's a silly argument if I've ever seen one. Apartheid was the law in South Africa ... Jim Crow was the law in America. By your "reasoning", those are both moral.
