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Well, criminal law is, for the most part, a representation of consensus around ethics. If everyone thought it was ethically cool to murder others, it would be
by DannyBee 8y ago
Well, criminal law is, for the most part, a representation of consensus around ethics. If everyone thought it was ethically cool to murder others, it would be legal to murder others.
It's true you cannot replace legal with ethical, but the above should tell you the reason why:
Your definition of what is ethical has not reached enough consensus to be legal/illegal.
It's fine to say others should have your moral values and have arguments why. But expecting them to and scoffing at them for not doing so is silly - this is literally the stuff that makes legality not black and white.
- DannyBee 8y agoand to try to help , the distinction one would try to normally draw here is not about ethics. Legality almost always follows ethical consensus Really it's about legality vs social aberrance. Which is not the same as ethics.