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There isn't a "wider morality upon which everyone can agree". That is the very point I am making. The Bible WAS this society's treatise on morality. It seems easy to believe that we could all agree that as long as some behaviour doesn't harm others, that it should be allowed. That is a typical amoral liberal pipe dream. People can't even agree on whether or not people should be allowed to eat meat - if not for the burden of public health care costs, then the climate damage from cattle methane! What seems quite simple is clearly not.

We shouldn't kill each other - and yet we do it all the time. Obama did it today, I'm sure. It's not a matter of semantics, it's a question of morality.

"Thou shalt not kill...unless I the Lord God tell you to...or unless the other person is a terrorist, or the other person is insane, or the other person generates too much carbon dioxide, or unless the other person has ebola and won't cover his mouth when he sneezes..."

We have lost our morality in the name of progress.