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Infidelity and the Possibility of a Liberal Legal Moralism

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This paper argues that according to the influential version of legal moralismpresented by Moore infidelity should all-things-considered be criminalized. This is in-teresting because criminalizing infidelity is bound to be highly controversial and becauseMoore’s legal moralism is a prime example of a self-consciously liberal legal moralism,which aims to yield legislative implicationsthat are quite similar to liberalism, whilemaintaining that morality as such should be legally enforced. Moore tries to make histheory yield such implications, first by claiming that the scope of our moral obligations ismuch more limited than legal moralists have traditionally claimed, and second by al-lowing for the possibility that the goodness of legally enforcing morality is often out-weighed by the badness of limiting citizens’ morally valuable autonomy and spendingscarce resources on enforcement. If Moore is successful in this, legal moralism isstrengthened because it becomes immune to many of the most damaging liberal objec-tions. By showing that despite making those moves Moore’s legal moralism is stillcommitted to criminalizing infidelity, a manifestly illiberal implication for legislation, itis established that Moore is unsuccessful in creating a liberal legal moralism, andMoore’s failure in this regard raises questions about whether there can be such a thing asa liberal legal moralism

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