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In my experience, it's pretty common for people to bring up the fact that something is legal to avoid the question of whether it's right.
by unholiness 6y ago
In my experience, it's pretty common for people to bring up the fact that something is legal to avoid the question of whether it's right.
- logicprog 6y agoIn my experience it's pretty common for people to bring up the fact that something isn't morally right in order to imply that it shouldn't be legal. This is, when challenged, usually followed either by evasion or claims that the other person is immoral. Because obviously, if you don't want to ban all immoral things, obviously you're immoral. So some people bring up the founding principles of our nation and the case law built around it because it's the best kind of common ground - agreed upon societal basis/"social contract" - they can think of to explain why some immoral things should be illegal but some immoral things shouldn't.