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I am certain that I will be accused of strawmanning, but if there is no standard at all, then anything I decide to do is right, correct? Then why have laws, police, courts, penitentiaries?
By this logic, you must allow others to do as they see fit, even as you do as you wish. Doesn't this lead to chaos? Isn't this why we repress violent crime? Isn't this why we prosecute theft and fraud? Because there ARE objective standards?
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There are variants with societal and cultural standards that generally form the attitude of what constitutes right and wrong in regards to the law/morality for the members of that society. Not to mention the changes over time within a single society that revise those standards. ex: It was excepted and considered "right" to marry a 13 yr old girl, but society now has evolved to the understanding of how it is mental and physically harmful for a 13 yr old to be in that situation, thus our "right" has changed.