The history of law just doesn't give me any confidence that it should necessarily be a good moral guide: Slavery, the Holocaust, lack of woman's rights etc... were all facilitated and justified with laws of the time.
You're right, there are lots of examples of times where it has been very clearly wrong - but I think it's coming to a point now where it does heavily rely on morals as a guide
I agree that most law now is heading in that direction - Let's just hope that when bad laws are passed we can still recognise them as bad. You see what I'm saying - too much faith in a system like that can be a bad thing.
Law is the lowest school of morality in my opinion. If someone's moral code starts and ends with the law, they've never developed their moral sense past baseline and being told what is good and bad
I never said that someone's morals should come from the law - I also agree with you there. I'm just saying that most of the time, laws tend to be created around the idea of morals
Not always
D&D players learn this early and quickly.
but the law is often made around the idea of morals so the two are linked
The history of law just doesn't give me any confidence that it should necessarily be a good moral guide: Slavery, the Holocaust, lack of woman's rights etc... were all facilitated and justified with laws of the time.
They said "often" not "always".
You're right, there are lots of examples of times where it has been very clearly wrong - but I think it's coming to a point now where it does heavily rely on morals as a guide
I agree that most law now is heading in that direction - Let's just hope that when bad laws are passed we can still recognise them as bad. You see what I'm saying - too much faith in a system like that can be a bad thing.
Im glad morals are just a suggestion
Totally agree. While running a red light isn't necessarily immoral, killing is wrong absolutely.
Yes it is, you know the dangers of doing it, you put others at risk, but you do it anyways?
Morals.
Some peoples morals dictate that they muder the unmoral
Law is the lowest school of morality in my opinion. If someone's moral code starts and ends with the law, they've never developed their moral sense past baseline and being told what is good and bad
Absolutely agree.
I never said that someone's morals should come from the law - I also agree with you there. I'm just saying that most of the time, laws tend to be created around the idea of morals