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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you not think that laws (many laws, any way) are simply a legal codification of moral principles? Most people obey the law because they believe it's "right" to do so, I suspect, not because they fear the punishment if they are caught breaking it.
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Most laws in the last several centuries have been written to advantage a particular group over another, either economically or socially. Most of what you consider legal codification of moral principles had been done long before that....