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Originally posted by hot_pastrami
I think of laws in a democracy as something intended to reflect a community's lowest common moral denominators.
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Funny, I don't think of democratic laws as properly a mechanism for enforcing morals. I think of them as a mechanism to help people with *different* moral values to share a society without doing great harm to each other.
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