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Originally Posted by Hermes
I think there's some misuse of terms here, the issue described is not about morality.
Laws are made to protect people and to keep things in control instead of chaos. Morality and ethics does play a part in many laws, but the issue seem to be about laws that protect us from others, versus laws that protect us from ourself. I don't know what term should be used to differentiate these 2 kind of laws but it isn't morality. But morality is not irrelevant when making these decicions, after all there must be a good reason why evolution developed it.
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Making laws = forcing certain rules onto people.
Taking your own morality into account when making laws = forcing your own morality onto others = a recipe for oppression
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Originally Posted by Hermes
About laws that are made to protect people from themselves, I think people are just too stupid to always know what's best for them
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So people don't know what is best for them, but those few people who make up the government and make the laws, they do know what is best? Yes, people make mistakes, but giving a few of them the power to rule over others by making them 'government officials' doesn't turn those few into all knowing superhumans that know what is best.