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Originally Posted by Hermes
Yes if you take into account a morality that only small group of people share, then you're asking for trouble. But what i was talking about is the kind of moral principles that Majority of people share. Many laws are influenced by this kind of common morality(ethics), like it's just "wrong" to kill, steal, etc.
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You are confusing ethics with morality. Ethics are a universal set of rules to prevent injustice: Don't commit murder, don't steal, don't rape,...
It's best described as the non-aggression principle: All human beings are free to do what they want as long as they don't cause damage to another human being or his property. If someone does cause damage to your property, then you have the right to defend yourself and your property or to retaliate.
Morality are your own personal rules. The guidelines or code by which you chose to live your life.
Forcing rules based on your own morality or the shared morality of a large group of people is equally unethical. It doesn't matter if 100 or 50000 or 10 million people agree to commit murder or steal or rape, it doesn't change the fact that it is unethical.
Ben Franklin said it best: "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch".
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"Democracy is 12 thugs with aids and herpes gangraping your mother" -- u-Bob, 2010
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Originally Posted by Hermes
Political systems aren't perfect, but democracy has worked quite well compared to other options today, or do you think full communism would work better. Well it seems that people will never have the same opinion about everything and you are forced to make compromises when doing laws, some people will always be left feeling unhappy about something.
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Who said anything about communism, I'm talking about the opposite of communism: liberty, freedom, personal responsibility, voluntary association, real free markets (not the corporatist system we have today),...