Originally Posted by dodgefan
The question was do laws dictate ethics and morality?
If so, whose? Taken to a logical extreme you are saying that if shooting people for giggles was legal it would be perfectly fine and we would be wrong for saying it wasn't and trying to pass laws against it.

That's not a logical extreme, that's allowing mentally ill people and their lifestyle choices to be considered rational as a society fashions laws to govern the behavior of everyone in that society.