Defending the Law [Part 1]

Private Virtue is the Wrong Lens

“The law can’t make you good”—critics of the Law.

This post continues a series I introduced yesterday.

The law has many purposes, not all of which aim at the moral ceiling. The law is first of all a moral and social floor. And while it can’t necessarily make us good, if we only aimed to be good, we would end up being far worse as a culture than if we soug…