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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Actually, law is designed to dictate and enforce morality. It is generally created once a society decides on a moral issue, and needs a mechanism to make sure all of society abides by it. And the law is used as a guide to enforcing the desired morality fairly.
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The law is designed to enforce contracts, including the social contract. It's helpful if it's produced ethically, without imbalanced influence from one or more parties in a given contract, but there is no such thing as "enforcing... morality."