There's always a moment of intense cultural whiplash whenever I realize I'm talking to someone who thinks "legal" and "illegal" are meaningful categories and ascribes innate goodness to following the law. It's like meeting a space alien.
#same as when Christians ask how you could possibly be moral if you don’t follow the Bible#implying that like. the only thing holding them back from murder and abuse and rape is god told them no#like I don’t doubt most people making that argument wouldn’t actually go on to hurt people if they no longer believed in god#but that is logically what their argument concluded
