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You can believe in the power of a legal system without respecting the specific legal system that you're currently living under. Would it be a disconnect to ill
by ivanbakel 5y ago
You can believe in the power of a legal system without respecting the specific legal system that you're currently living under.
Would it be a disconnect to illegally oppose an immoral law - like, say, the legal protection of slaves as property - while simultaneously wanting to pass laws that you expect people to follow - like, say, making slavery illegal? Probably not.
It's inaccurate to treat obedience to the law as a moral act. It can only be moral because the law itself reflects moral attitudes. Wherever there is a disconnect between the law and morality, it is the law that bends - which is exactly why laws can be rewritten in the first place.
- temp8964 5y agoWhat immoral law are you talking about? Allowing rich being rich? Too rich? You don't like rich being super rich? What immoral law is it? Be specific.
- jessaustin 5y agoAnd Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
- subsaharancoder 5y agoContext!!..Context!!..Context!!
- ivanbakel 5y agoI'm not calling any law out as being immoral - I'm pointing out that there's nothing hypocritical in circumventing a law you find to be unjust while still campaigning for changes to the law that you expect others to follow.