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Topic	Explain how law and morality aren't the same thing?
ParanoidObsessive 10/24/18 8:48:50 PM #11:	shadowsword87 posted... Well... you can make laws that are immoral for one. And you can have social taboos and norms that aren't codified into law. Lokarin posted... Both are the rules of maintaining the social contract through a series of incentives, disincentives, and punishments. In theory, yes. But countless political and legal systems have existed which pass laws for any number of reasons, be it business or personal or a powerful minority oppressing a weaker majority that straight up violate social contract. Law and morality are two circles in a Venn Diagram with plenty of intersect, but also plenty of places where they're different. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:911107544] in Explain ho... [t:77129173]...</cite> <quote><cite>shadowsword87 posted...</cite> <quote>Well... you can make laws that are immoral for one.</quote> And you can have social taboos and norms that aren't codified into law. <cite>Lokarin posted...</cite> <quote>Both are the rules of maintaining the social contract through a series of incentives, disincentives, and punishments.</quote> In theory, yes. But countless political and legal systems have existed which pass laws for any number of reasons, be it business or personal or a powerful minority oppressing a weaker majority that straight up violate social contract. Law and morality are two circles in a Venn Diagram with plenty of intersect, but also plenty of places where they're different. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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