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Edited by car15: 6/6/2016 12:07:38 AM
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Which is more important: law & order, or moral justice?

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Moral justice

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In a civilized society, which should be considered more important? Should the law bend and evolve to accommodate moral justice, or should moral justice work within the bounds of the law?
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  • The law should [i]follow[/i] from morality. The law itself is not a metric for ethics. Things are not wrong because they are illegal - things (ideally) are illegal because they're wrong. Slavery was legally sanctioned. Segregation and apartheid were legally sanctioned. Even the Holocaust was legally sanctioned. The two concepts aren't exclusive, but it's important to recognize that morality is what guides laws, not the other way around.

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