“If men and women try to create a society in which there is no fundamental agreement about good and evil they will fail; if, having based it on common agreement, the agreement goes, the society will disintegrate. For society is not something that is kept together physically; it is held by the invisible bonds of common thought. If the bonds were too far relaxed the members would drift apart. A common morality is part of the bondage. The bondage is part of the price of society; and mankind, which needs society, must pay its price”Â
Patrick Devlin
(Devlin 1965, p. 10).
As mentioned in Walter De Gruyter 2011,
Legal Moralism can defined as ; the immorality of an act of type A is a sufficient reason for the criminalization of A, even if A does not cause someone to be harmed
