I wasn't saying that laws are based on Judeo-Christian morals
But lets not be coy, since we live in the USA and we arn't talking about India I can infer that you meant Judeo Christian Morals and not Hindu, Buddhist, Stoic, or Confuscist Morals.
Let's look at your housing argument, taking all morals out of the picture:
Why should the landlord not discriminate? What is the problem with discrimination? I challenge you to explain the problems of discrimination without resorting to morals (try explaining it without saying that it is "wrong" or that people have natural rights
Whoah, WHoa, Whoa... since when are natural rights or natuaral law moral or immoral? Since morality reflects the changing view of society and their interpritation of various behaviors to insure "moral" stability the fact that something is a natural law isn't enough to make it moral. It may be a natural law that puppies grow up to be dogs or that Horses eat hay but it doesn't make their state of being moralistic. The fact that all men are created equal doesn't make that creation or the implied equality of the createeany more moral than if all men were created different.
I also never said all law was immoral if you reread what I said in the first paragraph!!
I feel confidant that law is not just designed to enforce morality
you might get that I was saying that morality is not the
guiding force of law it is a contributing factor, but one that is often overlooked in the persuit of true justice.
What about all the social welfare laws? They are not administrative - they're not in place to arbitrate. They are done to help the less fortunate homeless, poor, unemployed etc... It is charitible, another incarnation of morals.
Are you actually saying those laws got passed out of the goodness of someones heart and their concern for right and wrong and not because people in the lower classes of society were rioting and killing people? They are there to arbitrate, between social classes...
they effectively say "Ok the government will assure you have a roof over your head and money to buy food, in exchange you wont burn down Salt Lake and kill your boss."
The arbitration comes in when the bosses are forced to pay their workers a minimum salary, assure extra pay for overtime, a 40 hour work week with breaks for the restroom and lunch.
Its not charitable, its scraps designed to keep people just poor enough to not get so ticked off they riot. You think minimum wage and the eight hour day are charity? Excuse me for laughing... HA!