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To: Lane3 who wrote (78989)	11/12/2003 11:14:11 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

There are two questions to be answered in dealing with this issue. One is the morality the other is the legality. That's a false dichotomy. Our laws reflect our morality. Laws against murder, for example, reflect a moral position -- we could equally well take the moral view of nature and let the strong survive and the weak be killed. But we don't. Our law against theft reflects, again, the moral assumption that a person is entitled to keep what he or she has obtained (except for taxation). Again, that is contrary to the law we see in nature; the strongest lion in a pride will drive the weakest away from a kill until the strongest has eaten his fill. Our laws reflect our choice to supplant natural law with man-made morals-based law. There is no dichotomy between morals and legality.

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