Is it wrong to judge how people behaved in the past based on today's morals?

Is this a special rule, or 'law' of your own that I see written down here? By your own yardstick then it might be irrelevant.  In any case, it still begs the question.



You did not specify religious law, just 'the law' my friend, if this is what you mean. So enlighten this atheist: are you here really saying that even secular law is irrelevant enough to be ignored, or is it just religious 'do's and don'ts', as in the commandments? Is it any law which has a mirror in religious writing? Or is it just any written laws per se? And what, then, ought laws be replaced with? Chinese Whispers?



A peculiar example, and I don't see what this has to do with the notion that laws can be ignored generally without moral penalty, which ultimately is what you are suggesting - and without due logical reason, so far. (This of course does not mean that every law is to be obeyed no matter what, of course, as the Founding Fathers and others demonstrated, but even then they eventually came up with one of the best known and greatest legal codes we have.) But if you really say all laws are irrelevant, presumably this means for you child abuse, murder, and rape etc are not to be considered crimes at all, as their legal proscription is meaningless. So what are they then? Just ... hobbies?