If I had a penny for every time the phrase "imposing your morality on everybody" (and its ilk) was used in the Backroom, I could buy Creative Assembly and maybe SEGA, too. The phrase is usually used to strike out against arguments for making laws the user disagrees with.
Person B then usually follows with a wry comment on the religious or political beliefs of Person A.Originally Posted by Example
I was under the impression that most, if not all laws involved imposing one persons' morality over another. If this is the case, then the objection that one person - or one group - is imposing his or her morality over another person or group is hardly an objection at all!
So if some morals must triumph legally over others, then whose morals win? Should the majority decide the morals? Or does morality come from some other source?
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