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minus-squareSCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoYes. You cannot legislate morality, or you simply force anyone who doesn’t share your morality to be a criminal. There’s a reason our legal system is based around standing and provable harm. Imagine if we made “being conservative” illegal. People would riot, and quite justifiably.
minus-squarediprount_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down9·11 months agoObjective morality is a thing, and most legal systems follow it.
minus-squareSCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·11 months agoIt most assuredly is not, and just going by “number of countries with fucked up laws” most legal systems are dumb as hell
minus-squarediprount_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·11 months agoAgain, I didn’t say all countries follow objective morality (Basically countries that violate human rights, which is basically the closest thing to a codified objective morality we have)
Yes. You cannot legislate morality, or you simply force anyone who doesn’t share your morality to be a criminal.
There’s a reason our legal system is based around standing and provable harm.
Imagine if we made “being conservative” illegal. People would riot, and quite justifiably.
Objective morality is a thing, and most legal systems follow it.
It most assuredly is not, and just going by “number of countries with fucked up laws” most legal systems are dumb as hell
Again, I didn’t say all countries follow objective morality (Basically countries that violate human rights, which is basically the closest thing to a codified objective morality we have)