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    It is not the case that Laws should not concern offenses against God

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    • 1.Laws shape public morality and civic virtue, not merely adjudicate harms between individuals.
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    • 2.A community's legal framework can legitimately express and reinforce the shared sacred commitments that constitute its social bond.
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    • 3.Durkheim and Aquinas both argue that transgressing collectively held sacred norms destabilizes the moral foundations civil order depends upon.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Montesquieu's harm principle presupposes a sharp public/private distinction that many coherent legal traditions explicitly reject.
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    • 2.In natural law theory from Grotius to Finnis, obligations to God are prior to and generative of the very rights framework that harm-based law presupposes.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Laws are justified by the need to protect parties from harm
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    • 2.God does not require the protection of human laws
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