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Topic	Explain how law and morality aren't the same thing?
Zeus 10/24/18 8:48:22 PM #10:	Lokarin posted... Zeus posted... Lokarin posted... They're formed by the same process... only one is written and one is not. lolwut? No, laws are created to maintain order or, in other cases, to benefit lawmakers and their friends. Morality is a system (or principle?) that selectively distinguishes good from evil. While there's some intersect, they're two very different things. More importantly, laws are far more concrete than morality. Both are the rules of maintaining the social contract through a series of incentives, disincentives, and punishments. No, morality has no inherent incentives, disincentives, and punishments; doubly so when you consider that the amoral tend to reap greater benefits than the moral. Otherwise, the principle of moral deserts -- doing good for the sake of receiving benefit -- specifically contradicts what you're trying to claim because then people aren't doing things to be good but because they're receiving benefit. Likewise, the social contract doesn't necessarily factor into laws because laws are designed to benefit governments more than citizens. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:911107521] in Explain ho... [t:77129173]...</cite> <quote><cite>Lokarin posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Lokarin posted...</cite> <quote>They're formed by the same process... only one is written and one is not.</quote> lolwut? No, laws are created to maintain order or, in other cases, to benefit lawmakers and their friends. Morality is a system (or principle?) that selectively distinguishes good from evil. While there's some intersect, they're two very different things. More importantly, laws are far more concrete than morality.</quote> Both are the rules of maintaining the social contract through a series of incentives, disincentives, and punishments.</quote> No, morality has no inherent incentives, disincentives, and punishments; doubly so when you consider that the amoral tend to reap greater benefits than the moral. Otherwise, the principle of moral deserts -- doing good for the sake of receiving benefit -- specifically contradicts what you're trying to claim because then people aren't doing things to be good but because they're receiving benefit. Likewise, the social contract doesn't necessarily factor into laws because laws are designed to benefit governments more than citizens. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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