If morality doesn't matter in the least, then we might as well all live in Nazi / Soviet / Whatever tyranny. Who cares if the government kills your neighbors ("they must have done something"), or even you yourself ("I must have done something!"), amirite? Nothing matters, if morality doesn't matter. Live free, die a slave -- whatever, it's all the same? Die of natural causes or be tortured to death -- whatever, it's all the same?
Or, morality matters, we demand and mostly get the rule of law, and then we all benefit from not getting disappeared, tortured, killed.
It's very simple. Everyone needs the State to act morally. The "lower classes" need it even more than the "higher" classes! The poorer you are, the less protection you'll have from an immoral State.
Only in Marxist/Leninist fantasies do "the lower classes" benefit from not having a moral State: because the State will crush the "higher classes" for the benefit of the lower, yeah!!1! That's what always happens!! Not. That's very much not what happened in the USSR.
No, when the State foregoes morality, everyone suffers.
Or, morality matters, we demand and mostly get the rule of law, and then we all benefit from not getting disappeared, tortured, killed.
It's very simple. Everyone needs the State to act morally. The "lower classes" need it even more than the "higher" classes! The poorer you are, the less protection you'll have from an immoral State.
Only in Marxist/Leninist fantasies do "the lower classes" benefit from not having a moral State: because the State will crush the "higher classes" for the benefit of the lower, yeah!!1! That's what always happens!! Not. That's very much not what happened in the USSR.
No, when the State foregoes morality, everyone suffers.