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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2491837" data-attributes="member: 18549"><p>That's not exactly the way the justice system is supposed to work.&nbsp; Originally, the law is supposed to be inspired by popular (perhaps moralistic) sentiment as to what should and should not be allowed, but overall laws are simply an agreement that if a certain act is permitted, it would harm society, and so should not be allowed.&nbsp; The law doesn't deal with good and evil.&nbsp; It deals with, &quot;did you break the rules and can we prove it?&quot;.&nbsp; Even though the rules may have been inspired by a moral judgement, they are no longer attached to that judgement, and the law doesn't care what the rationale behind itself is (barring entities like the supreme courts, which are established in order to interpret things like rationale).&nbsp; So there's at least one large step in between moral judgement and legal judgement.&nbsp; This is why laws and morality have no real point of intersection, and are difficult to commensurate.&nbsp; They might relate to one another, but they exist in two different worlds of discourse.&nbsp; It's a leap to get from one to the other.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 2491837, member: 18549"] That's not exactly the way the justice system is supposed to work. Originally, the law is supposed to be inspired by popular (perhaps moralistic) sentiment as to what should and should not be allowed, but overall laws are simply an agreement that if a certain act is permitted, it would harm society, and so should not be allowed. The law doesn't deal with good and evil. It deals with, "did you break the rules and can we prove it?". Even though the rules may have been inspired by a moral judgement, they are no longer attached to that judgement, and the law doesn't care what the rationale behind itself is (barring entities like the supreme courts, which are established in order to interpret things like rationale). So there's at least one large step in between moral judgement and legal judgement. This is why laws and morality have no real point of intersection, and are difficult to commensurate. They might relate to one another, but they exist in two different worlds of discourse. It's a leap to get from one to the other. [/QUOTE]

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