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I'd say that if 95% or any majority of population agree on something, it can make something LEGAL. There are some ethical systems that prescribe universal mora

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > For example, in utilitarianism, killing someone who is about to poison a water supply (thus probably killing many others) would be morally good. Maybe, depending on other alternatives available. > Deontology or absolutist moral theories prescribe that killing is always immoral. Most real deontological systems prescribe situations in which murder is justified, and self-defense and defense of others are common examples, and the broad outline ends up looking a lot like what common utilitarian approaches would yield. (There's a good argument to be made that most moral systems are rationalizations from preferred treatments of common situations and that people don't really tend to reason forward from principles, anyway, so it's not that surprising that the radically different root principles of utilitarian and deontological approaches end up with similar results, because they are mostly alternate rationalizations for those results.)