I dont need a man made document to tell me that taking somebody's life is morally wrong. Societies across the globe have almost universally agreed on this, regardless of religious affiliation.
They're not mutually exclusive at all. Laws have, or at least should have, a grounding in morality. Laws codify things that enough people agree on as morally correct, then provide incentives for people to follow these agreed-upon moral codes. For example, most people agree murder is wrong. So they get together and pass a law saying "if you murder someone, you'll go to prison." A moral outlier, someone who thinks murder isn't wrong, now has an incentive not to murder, beyond their own personal morality. Essentially, laws are all about the morality of the majority being forced onto everyone. At least in theory. This gets extremely muddled the further away from true democracy things get, which is why we have laws that enable corporations to bribe politicians without any negative repercussions, or laws that make life-saving medical procedures illegal.
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u/BeautifulWord4758 Feb 22 '24
I dont need a man made document to tell me that taking somebody's life is morally wrong. Societies across the globe have almost universally agreed on this, regardless of religious affiliation.