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> most laws are morally kind of neutral Slavery was once legal, and this kind of thinking is what made people want to continue it
by alfiedotwtf 6y ago
> most laws are morally kind of neutral
Slavery was once legal, and this kind of thinking is what made people want to continue it
- kube-system 6y agoI think it is reasonable to conclude they were referring to the bulk of the law that is administrative/procedural/etc. There are 53 titles of US code, and one of those (title 18) is about criminal code. The rest are predominately not matters of morality. Most things that are legal aren't outlined in the law anyway, they're omitted.
- eru 6y ago> Most things that are legal aren't outlined in the law anyway, they're omitted. So for slavery, you would expect the laws to eg deal with run-away slaves etc, not so much with slavery itself. > I think it is reasonable to conclude they were referring to the bulk of the law that is administrative/procedural/etc. There are 53 titles of US code, and one of those (title 18) is about criminal code. The rest are predominately not matters of morality. Yes, exactly. And I am presuming here, that there is a presumption in morality that all-else-being equal, it's more moral to stick to these neutral laws, just because it makes living in a society with other people more bearable. Eg in a moral sense it doesn't matter whether people drive on the left side of the road or the right side. But if there's a law about driving on the books, you better follow it. (No clue whether this is strictly speaking something about morals or more about ethics?)
- eru 6y agoSlavery meets that low burden of proof I talked about.