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To: FarCenter

“Morality applies to intersecting belief communities with differing morals”

I follow you until the above.

What does “morality applies” mean? Are you using ‘morality’ to mean conformity to a set of rules for conduct? Does ‘intersecting’ boil down to disagreement?

I tend to think that government should stay out of issues of morality unless they lead to behaviors that are injurious to the society as a whole.


96 posted on 08/03/2022 6:27:01 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

Morality more concerns values and principles regarding what behaviors and attitudes are good and bad.

Rules are more what law is concerned with, i.e. this or that action with such and such intent in the following situation is punishable by fines and incarceration.

Communities with specific moral beliefs are “intersecting” in the sense that multiple differing communities live together and interact with one another within the same legal jurisdiction. This is a major reason why the legal rules do not reflect the moral beliefs of all the persons in a governmental jurisdiction.


116 posted on 08/03/2022 7:03:22 AM PDT by FarCenter
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