Comment: Pretty muddled thinking there Gerson. Could that be because there really is no logic to your position; that it's a matter of "belief" & "faith" for you? I think yes. You traipse along, blithely - & erroneously - dividing people into two camps: those with the "personal ethic of absolute autonomy" & those with "a social ethic of utilitarianism" when you know that is not the case at all. There are many other paths and that is where most people walk. That is how we are able to be free individuals living within a social system. The law is simply a set of rules that allows us to maximize personal freedom within a social context - society- which must also be scrupulously maintained. There are compromises that must be made in order to make such a system work for everyone, not just a privileged few. That's the ultimately hypocritical basis for a lot of Trumpnuts that voted for Trump. Yet they now revel in the fact that Trump only represents them. It's not ironic; but rather sad & pathetic.