On Oct 16, 5:04*pm, "The Undead Edward M. Kennedy" > wrote:
> "Rupert" > wrote
>
> > <I'm currently fairly skeptical that there are any moral
> > <truths.
>
> > Cool. If the right to life isn't self-evident, then we kill your
> > kind with impunity.
>
> <
> <Actually, you will find that there are legal penalties for murder.
>
> I wonder why they bothered to make it illegal. *Obviously
> no moral truths were involved. *It's just some random law.
>

It's not too difficult to come up with an explanation of why murder is
illegal.