Actually, we pass laws that help us live in a somewhat harmonious society. Most of our laws are more about getting along with each other than they are about actual morals.

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Objective - adjective

1. (of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

Morality is entirely subjective based on popular opinion. There are no facts defining morality, there is a common agreed upon theme that is again entirely based upon the decisions of the masses and their feelings on a particular subject.

Morality is always slightly different from person to person, but every individual does not get to decide what is moral and what is not. If that was the case Hitler could have decided he was moral and the rest of humanity would have to follow his lead which is not the case. Laws are based on morality and enforced by the masses, again not decided upon by an individual. That is the problem with mixing up justice and religion and morality and laws. They are all based on man's interpretation at the time and some obsolete but none ever perfect.

There are many cases in justice which in comparison while the law was followed most people can agree the outcomes are not fair. Laws are not in any way shape or form perfect morality.

What a conflation, indeed. There can and should always be things that are immoral but not illegal.

Basically, the legal system has the same problem as religion. No, I'm not talking about how they both tend to have unflattering robes and uncomfortable pews. The utimate truth behind any determination made in the system is akin to 'because I said so'.

In religion this is a reference to the authority of a sacred teхt. In the legal system it is typically said as "it's the law!" As it may be deadpanned by your attorney or bellowed by an officer who is questioned by those who should hardly even answer in their mighty presense.

I get the need for society to have some sort of backbone. Yet, the way we treat sex and drugs in many places seems a lot more like something perpetrated on the populace rather than the ultimate code of behavior.

I think that morality is objective. Everything is objective, or else it's not provable, verifiable, etc. because then it's not even certain that it is there.

Now, do people even read about morality or anything in my experience? Hell no. I live in the USA, ain't nobody reading sh%t except the New York Post or some other small talk stuff.

I agree. But there are also commonly shared morals, consensus morality if you will and these form our laws.

Morality for me is compassion and evidence

In the end the morality is the group of expected behavior that, when applied by huge number of people, will generate a stable and if possible continuously improving environment.
This is what we try to translate in laws and social unwritten rules.
The problem is that this environment changes, and any rule that becomes too sacred to be touched will become an anchor.

Morality comes down to ‘well being’. How do your actions effect the well being of others?

Morality is malleable.
More a matter of convenience than anything else.

Morality can have gray areas, but if you murder, torture, rape, enslave, or similarly directly harm another person then that is immoral.

Law is not morality. Driving 58mph in a 55mph zone is not immoral. Littering is not immoral. Smoking weed is not immoral. Sneaking in to a theater to see a movie is illegal but not really immoral.

Cheating on your spouse is generally considered immoral yet its not illegal. Lying is usually considered immoral but generally not illegal.

Morality and law are very different. With the exception of acts that harm others (murder, assault, theft, etc) morality should not be enforced by laws.

In reality, morality goes way deeper than individual decision and choice. Much of morality is culturally determined. In many senses, morality at its base is more related to evolutionary determinism, instincts. Instincts work to maximize fitness for survival. Having a cultural determinate like morals and morality allows for a population of himan's to maximize it fitness for survival. Caveat: humans have found a way to shield themselves from their own instincts and their environment, so examples of an increase of aberrant behavior that is contrary to fitness occurs with tegulsrity.

Some laws are not moral, but imperfect expressions of cultural biases. Some laws are to be resisted if we are moral people. Example: The Jim Crow of the American south prior to the late 1960s.

Morality is subjective unless of course you have been indoctrinated into a belief system. I think that morals can be fluid for some people. As an example a Christian friend who is totally against abortion because it is immoral but then her daughter gets pregnant and voila! all of a sudden it isn't against her morals in this instance. I think for me it is that many people espouse morality insofar as what others should do....you know do as I say, not as I do

Actually, morality is subjective. Therefore, it is not absolute (unless you are one who believes a god dictated to you what is moral). It is also relative because of changing circumstances.

We all rely on our society for our well being and therefore owe a debt to the unspoken social contract to live cooperatively.