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by mystified5016 343 days ago
Morality and law are completely disjoint. On a Venn diagram, it's two circles separated by about a lightyear or so.
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What? They couldn't be more closely connected. In a democracy, laws are to a large extent a reflection of the wishes of the voters, and voters want what they believe is moral.

It's true there's no casual relation in the other direction, if that's what you mean - law does not define morality.