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Really? You're going to make a moral comparison between a minor traffic violation (not even a primary offense!) and having sex with a coerced child?

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• sincerely 7y ago
  Either you tie morality to legality, or you don't.
  • rosser 7y ago
    It's not that simple. There are plenty of places where the sets "things that are legal" and "things that are moral" don't intersect. Those are some of the most interesting, challenging questions we will face. EDIT: And I would submit the offered example illustrates that. Doing two miles per hour over the posted speed limit may not be legal, but it's hardly immoral. Similarly, lying to someone to sway their opinions in an argument isn't illegal, but I don't think that's particularly moral, is it? Don't be so reductive.
    • selestify 7y ago
      That appears to be the whole point the person you were replying to was making -- that the two are only loosely correlated.
      • rosser 7y ago
        Oh, the jumping jacks thing was supposed to have been taken as an actual argument? Because my response to that was, "I wouldn't go there."
  • CathedralBorrow 7y ago
    Are there any available positions in between these polar opposites?
    • sincerely 7y ago
      No