: How legislators make laws while everything in this world is subjective, including goodness and badness?
What we consider good and positive for the humanity can be negative indeed. What is considered right in the West may be considered wrong in the East.
Regarding to the fact that everyone has his own ethics and reasons, how can we set laws and consider them to be positive for everyone?
Philosophically, I believe there’s no verity in the laws the lawmakers set.
How legislators make laws?
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Answer by Jason
It’s true everyone has different standards, maybe that’s why there are so many different countries. What you are talking about sounds a lot like relative moralism. In philosophy that’s when you adopt the standards of morals from wherever you happen to be. Here in the US it’s considered very bad to eat a relative. but in some islands in the south pacific it is considered important and an honor to eat a dead relative. It has something to do with the passing along of energy. Under relative moralism, you coming from the US to one of these islands would instantly adopt this custom without trouble. There is much more to it than that. philosophy class was a long time ago.
In the US, the process is basically a “cost/ benefit analysis” with the Constitution as a foundation
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