Morality and the Law - Is it even possible to divorce the two?

And what moral decision of yours inspired you to add the annotations, eh? I think it’s another one that I don’t agree with.

I will concede that one can assess the moral views of a given culture. Now, do you think that every law held by those cultures was aligned with those moral views? From the littering laws to the murder laws? What does a Nazi littering law look like?

But, people don’t have to make a decision, until somebody actually raises the moral question to them (or they think of it themselves). They can just start greedy or altruistic, and carry on that way blithely. They can even decide not to worry about the moral considerations of their actions at all.
I believe that your presumption that all decisions are assessments of morality is incorrect. Most decisions can be construed as moral decisions (though your response to the example about ice cream demonstrates that sometimes it’s a heck of a stretch) but in reality a good lot of them are made without moral considerations having anything to do with it. Pragmatics, expediency, laziness, tradition, habit - there are a lot of roads to Rome, and you can’t assume that everyone in Rome took the road marked “moral consideration”.

Nitpick: The Declaration of Independence has no legal authority and is not our founding document.

It’s our divorce decree.

Are laws prescriptive?

“All law is oppression”?

Yikes, okay. :rolleyes:

Even if that left-field assertion is accepted, then surely even you will admit some laws prevent more oppression than they cause - like outlawing murder.