Sometimes people consider morality instead of legality.
Shouldn't morality be the basis for all of the laws?
So we disagree rather vehemently, except for "Whatever makes the most money for powerful people" is bad.
This would not be moral in any serious ethical framework
Edit: Human equality is often one of the most important topics in Ethics. Why do you think so much effort is put into depicting Others as Inhuman?
We agree, but I'm not particularly talking about "serious ethical frameworks" I'm talking about the most likely scenario if we try to implement law based on morality. It will be a corrupted morality from the get-go. Hence me caring about whose morality.
> Edit: Human equality is often one of the most important topics in Ethics. Why do you think so much effort is put into depicting Others as Inhuman?
Because it takes so much to change minds to see others as inhuman?
So let's distill this down:
- You're saying law already has or should have a moral component -- we agree.
- I'm saying that whose morality matters because humans will not apply morality evenly. We aren't perfect machines. We're run in part by our biases.
- You're saying that isn't a serious ethical framework then. Agreed.
- Finally I'm saying that if we choose to implement law from this point forward with a "new morality" -- that the "new morality" will already be corrupted by the people implementing it. It won't be a "serious ethical framework" -- it will be some watered down non-perfect version that privileges an in-group over an out-group, because humans do that stuff.