A charitable interpretation of OP's statement would be: You cannot really use lawfulness as a measure of morality, and this is true now just as much as it was

A charitable interpretation of OP's statement would be: You cannot really use lawfulness as a measure of morality, and this is true now just as much as it was back then. Or a different take could be: moral progress happens all the time, but the law often lags behind, so the delta between our moral ideas and the law is just as big as it has been in the past.