Morality.

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Originally Posted by Seefu Sefirosu

I think Afrobean did it just fine: You respect my personal freedoms, and in return, I respect your personal freedoms.

Whoa there... the problem is that this "law" isn't well defined at all. What count as "personal freedoms"? What counts as "respect"? Are there exceptions where said freedoms are forfeit for the good of society? Are there any special allowances given to people in special circumstances? What would happen if said personal freedoms are not respected?

Herein lies the problem - just saying "yea we'll respect personal freedoms of those around us" is completely ambiguous and, consequently, completely meaningless in the context of law. If you leave something as free to interpretation as that, you're just asking for trouble.

Originally Posted by MDMAngel

I'm sorry... I think I may have misinterpreted something... what are we talking about exactly? haha d:

(edit): Are we talking, arguing, debating, or are we discussing?

Well... I think most of these threads start out as discussions, but once somebody says something that somebody else doesn't completely agree with, the thread invariably turns into more of a friendly debate (or sometimes, not so friendly, but hopefully that doesn't happen too much) =p. Such is the fate of a critical thinking thread...

And as far as I can tell, I think we're discussing to what extent we're obligated to follow the "moral code" that our society seems to have set out for us. We're also touching on the incentives for following this code, as well as the source of this code (or, indeed, whether this code is even well defined in the first place).