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[whyBish]

Well, then you might have some of the nightmare sci-fi plots unfold.  If law were not based on our moral traditions and ethics we would be very well justified in a utilitarian state to terminate the elderly, criminals, and otherwise unproductive to harvest their organs for repairing the productive members of society.  We might encourage baby farming, or women getting pregnant to donate embyonic tissue to aid rich people to live extended life spans.
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Utilitarianism is just another form of ethics.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=utilitarianism
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The ethical theory proposed by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill that all action should be directed toward achieving the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
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The selection of laws will always require some form of judgement to distinguish between two opposing alternatives.
The only alternatives to ethics in lawmaking is lawlessness.