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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Also, for the record, laws are generally based on morals, they are not mutually exclusive of each other.
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It's more than that, to my mind: law
is the underlying morality of the society that makes it. Or, at least it is when those entrusted with making the laws aren't running amuck making them for the wrong reasons.
In other words, things are typically made illegal because the majority of a society agrees that those things are "wrong," and a minority of the society insists on continuing to do those things: laws aren't for those who follow them they're for those who
don't.
As an extreme example, murder is illegal because we almost universally agree that it's wrong. But if there weren't people who committed murder, we probably wouldn't ever have gotten around to actually making it
illegal. 
But have you ever asked yourself
why we consider murder to be wrong? There simply
isn't any non-morality based answer to that question. Even those who want to convince everyone that "morality" is pointless and empty and may be ignored with impunity,
still think murder is wrong. Go figure.