Law versus morality

[vulcanlogician]

I agree with this but I think morality should be as minimally intrusive as possible.  In the best of all possible worlds people would pursue their interests without dwelling on what anyone ought to do.  I prefer that morality as well as the law emphasize what is forbidden over what is praiseworthy.  Otherwise we'll all end up sounding like MK.

Interesting that what you say channels Plato. Plato thought that "justice is doing one's work and not meddling with what isn't one's own." It is because of Plato, that I am a moral objectivist in my ethics.

I think morality is an objective thing, wholly separate from one's personal opinions or the opinions of, say, the authors of the Bible. Much like Copernicus figured out that the earth revolves around the sun, we must also figure out morality. Ancient cultures thought that the sun revolved around the Earth. They were wrong. A modern mind with modern knowledge knows otherwise.   Ancient cultures thought that slavery and FGM were morally acceptable. They were wrong. A modern mind with modern knowledge knows otherwise. Certain things are obvious. Murder and theft are morally wrong. Both the ancient and the modern mind know this.