Why should we legislate morality when it is mostly a matter of believe on what a moral is.?

Answer 1

To set a uniform standard. Everyone has their own set of standards or ethics to live by. You are correct that it is a matter of belief. It is a philosophy of life (and death?) that is ingrained in us generally as children. Sometimes our parents teaching does not take effect, or like a child, we decide the rules our parents set down for us are not for us. At other times our parents don't teach us their philosophy, so society takes over and rules are made (hopefully for the good). Sometimes, those in authority get a little carried away, then we have things like the Inquisition and Hitler. Legislators try to take the middle path. And who knows better than our legislators on how to straddle the fence.

Answer 2

At some point there has to be a framework of absolutes to have an ordered society. In order for a Republic to exist / surviive, there have to be standards of behavior and laws to establish and enforce those standards. The legislation of morality is a necessity, in a sense, to see this occur. Thankfully, we here in the US have a voice. It's getting harder to hear , but we do still have a say.
The debate over situational ethics goes way back. The fortunate thing for society is that cooler heads have, for the most part, prevailed and we have absolutes in place. I used to teach my kids that rules were like pickets in a fence that kept bad things separated from them, so long as they stayed inside the fence.

Answer 3

Morality is objective, not subjective. And the whole point of government and the rule of law is to "legislate morality". Because the alternative is bashing in the heads of immoral people with rocks.

Do you REALLY want to go back to the old way of doing things?

Answer 4

Any country should never try to legislate morality , only behavior that is destructive to society as a whole. A government is for one purpose and one purpose only, to do what a people cannot do alone. Like schools and hospitals and roads for instance. Anytime a government steps beyond that you have the beginning of tyranny.

Answer 5

We legislate morality when acting immorally crosses over into the realm of criminal. Usually where one persons exercise of freedom badly infringes on another persons rights, say where one person takes another persons money by force because he doesn't belief that person should have so much. In the other direction, where money is taken by force because the 2nd person believes it is moral and the first person has too much money (taxation)

Answer 6

We should not legislate morality. If it has to be legislated, what does that say about how moral it is. We should be able to make our own personal decisions about personal morals.