[RS]

Not sure your point, does that mean to FORCE your neighbor to do as you do ?

... I would certainly not want him to attempt to force me ( by law or physical force ) to do what he does ...

[Mrs. Don-o]

You asked me to define moral absolutes; that I did, with reference to Jesus' answer to the question. I'm not sure where you got the idea that I was forcing somebody by law to comply with this. Certainly the First commandment (loving God with all your heart, with all your sould, with all your mind, and with all your strength) is outside of the purview of civil law.

Criminal law is not compelled to require all good or forbid and punish all evil. In fact it could not do so.

I don't have a detailed, systematic philosophy of criminal law at my fingertips, but I'm generally satisfied with what the second paragaph of the Declaration of Idependence says about the ends of good government. And since the right to life is paramount, offenses against life would be the most important to proscribe.