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All laws are moral. However, immoral actions may be lawful. This is because laws are basically the fixed set of moral rules for society, while there may be othe
by joshuaheard 10y ago
All laws are moral. However, immoral actions may be lawful. This is because laws are basically the fixed set of moral rules for society, while there may be other moral rules not generally agreed upon. I agree with the author, as long as the cars obey the law, there should be no problem.
- coderzach 10y ago> All laws are moral. However, immoral actions may be lawful. Are you saying that there is no such thing as an immoral law? It sounds like from your comment that you're saying: There may be immoral things you can do legally, but legality provides a "base" morality. Women must keep their face covered in public, Jim Crow laws, etc.
- joshuaheard 10y agoLaws and morals change, and sometimes they are not concomitant. I am speaking of an ideal equilibrium where the law is the manifestation of universally agreed-upon morals. In this case, some may have higher morals than the law requires, but to violate the law would be immoral per se.
- sid-kap 10y agoReminds me of something from Aristotle, although he said the converse: > ...evidently all lawful acts are in a sense just acts... > But since unfair and the unlawful are not the same, but are different as a part is from its whole (for all that is unfair is unlawful, but not all that is unlawful is unfair)... –Nicomachean Ethics, Book V