[MD] The Moral Landscape

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Steve]
Like always, when we know that something is immoral we still need to 
decide through the democratic process when it is and is not important 
and justified to enforce a moral obligation through the coercive 
power of government (itself a moral question that only rational 
inquiry can inform us about).

[Arlo]
Agree. And I think this is a good example of the intellectual level 
informing the social level (not just in the matter of awareness of 
germ behavior, but in "imposing" on the social level a "democratic 
process"), which in turn acts to curb the biological level.