At the risk of driving this question into the bowels of philosophy, I&#x27;m VERY hesitant to drive anything from a moral argument, because I don&#x27;t trust most judgements of morality, my own included.  I can establish the empirical success of certain things by many metrics, a moral metric is not one of them.  (I have and do regularly approach the question of &quot;what is the utility &#x2F; what should be my preference in terms of a moral metric&quot;, but again this seems to be like the prior &quot;great question of X&quot; but where X is religion&#x2F;philosophy instead of govt.)<p>There are certainly times when a moral argument is attractive (and which I would pragmatically chose, especially in the many cases when there are material impacts against which a certain moral stance would oppose) but if we&#x27;re having a conceptual discussion, I generally avoid that, and even in the cases when I would support a moral argument, I often seek other justifications of more utilitarian nature to try and support the moral suggestion.