Cappy, laws are generally based on a pragmatic consequentialism, which is a moral theory. It's a bad one, but if you're not trying to answer "what is right" but rather "what works for society", it seems to function more often than not. It's still a moral theory though - law can't avoid morality, because essentially all that morality is is the answer to the question, "how ought we to act".
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