Why bother with regulating natural human behavior?

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There are tens of thousands of people online who want you to pop caps in billionaires and engage in class warfare (envy, jealousy, and revenge are natural human things) and promote sex work (lust is also a natural human thing) while these same people wouldn't want you to be racist and sexist (natural pattern recognition).

How come various codes of justice and morality, may they be from some junkie in an """""anarchist commune""""" in the East Coast or an heir to thousands of years of philosophical tradition, while rooted in natural human desire to not be harmed and to prosper, also seem arbitrary when placed against other natural human desires?
 
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Your title and body of OP are different things.

The answer to your title is simple: because otherwise there would be chaos. It's very natural for a human to want to murder you for stupid reasons, and not having punishment as a deterrent is a bad idea.

Your body of OP can be answered just by the simple fact that people are different, and so they have very different moral codes (which also factor in emotions).

So to take your example, someone may condemn you for being racist, yet they may have developed a moral code (the result of their education, environment/personal situation, emotions, etc) that allows killing "bad guys". The "bad guys" according to their morality could include that CEO, and the circumstances to allow this murder from their moral perspective would be when there's no realistic, legal way to fight it back. It may also excuse it under the premise that this act may bring "prosperity" as you say to society as a net benefit, although it's not necessary here, the feeling of retribution and accomplished revenge is enough for them to think this way.

Is this logical, is it consistent, is it stupid? Regardless of all that, it's their moral code, their beliefs. And it's not difficult to image how they would have come to that conclusion, even if you don't think they're right.
 
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Because at the end of the day we need some kind of common ground if we wish to communicate with one another civilly. It's a baseline in which most are capable of, and thus which we base all communication as a species. Normal is only what is "normal" for most people, it is flawed but it is necessary. Much like language, normal is not a stationary standard, but one that flows with the times, but at the end of the day we need normal, as it is the one thing thing that holds us together.
 
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Because humans are not animals, and have the ability to control their sinful behavior, primal urges for the sake of bettering civilization,. We have an obligation to ourselves and god to not live like beasts. If you think it's natural to be an animal, go live in the woods. After all, it's natural to be homeless and to eat like a pig.
 
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Human beings regulate one another's behavior naturally, because they are social animals.
Legalism is just the codification of that behavior, transformed into a seemingly impersonal force, through the legerdemain of bureaucracy.
Naturally, human beings cause problems for one another, and naturally, where it is in their interest to, these are resolved through broad restrictions on actions which are enforced by the leadership, be that an individual, or an entire class.
The relationship of the average individual to the law is also a great barometer of the health of a civilization; a leadership that criminalizes everybody, illegitimates itself, because although the law flows down from above, it is sustained by recognition of mutual benefit, by everybody.
When this breaks down, you might couch it as the Chinese do; the mandate of heaven is lost, indicating that it is time once more to kill your leaders and find new ones, as all societies must do, from time to time.
 
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