Status Updates From The Enforcement of Morals

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Chapter VII: Morals and Contemporary Social Reality

Chapter VI: Mill on Liberty in Morals

Chapter V: Democracy and Morality

Chapter IV: Morals and the Law of Marriage

Chapter III: Morals and the Law of Contract

Chapter II: Morals and the Quasi-Criminal Law and the Law of Tort

"There is no more evidence for this sort of Utopia than there is for the existence of heaven"

"[Religious toleration] is practicable because, while each man believes that his own religion, or the lack of it, is the truth or nearest to the truth, he looks upon the alternatives as lesser good and not as evil" In the light of his earlier remarks about polygamy and his later remarks about Marcus Aurelius, you have to wonder whether Devlin would tolerate Islam.

"There may be times in the future, as there have been in the past, when a man has to set himself up against society. But if he does so, he must expect to find the law on the side of society." Not necessarily so, see death penalty.

"If the law on abortion causes unnecessary misery, let it be amended, not abolished on the grounds that abortion is not the law's business." Science and technology change the circumstances of human misery, and not just in ways that support liberalism; the advances in neonatal care make a good argument for restricting abortion.