At one time it was a lawful right to own slaves in this country. That was considered "normal".
Can you think of laws today, which give us certain rights, but are morally reprehensible?
2006-06-20 04:20:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Morality is a fluid concept. It changes from time to time and is different depending on various cultures.
What may seem moral today, may be viewed as completely immoral, in a few years.
2006-06-20 04:25:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have the "right" to cram chickens into cramped factory farm cages all their lives and treat them like egg-making machines, but this is not morally right. Ditto for other animal abuses involved in the modern production of meat. Which is why, for moral reasons, I am a vegetarian and only eat eggs from my own free-run chickens.
We have the "right" to trap animals in painful leghold traps just so we can wear their furs for fashion -- but it is cruelty to animals to trap that way and therefore not morally right.
Martin Luther King said: "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." But not moral. Hitler's govt kept passing laws to make it legal to commit atrocities against Jews, gays, Gypsies, etc. We should ask ourselves the same questions about Guantanamo Bay -- it may be legal to detain prisoners for years without a trial (or it may it's not) but is it morally right?
For that matter, is war morally right? Not to me...
2006-06-20 04:29:02 · answer #2 · answered by not_mn_nice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
law and morallity have nothing in common, just because a lawmaker wants to justify some morally wrong thing, he can make a law, but it is still not moral. if a law was passed saying it was ok to have sex with 10 year old kids it would still be morally wrong, and against gods law.
2006-06-20 04:27:01 · answer #3 · answered by native 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your morals. Nobody has mentioned gambling. Some people think gambling is morally wrong. I don't. It is legal in some places and not others. It's definitely a debatable concept.
2006-06-20 04:30:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe owning machine guns or automatic riffles.
Allowing insurance companies to own health care facilities and hospitals... (It's collusions)
allowing some so called non-prescription drugs to be sold off the counter...
2006-06-20 04:26:30 · answer #5 · answered by Vayu W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to many of them-any law that is for a persons own good-keep the peace old hippie here
2006-06-20 04:25:21 · answer #6 · answered by bergice 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legalization of alcohol, abortion, cigs. All morally wrong and only the tip of the iceberg.
2006-06-20 04:25:23 · answer #7 · answered by Kitten 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO- the slaughter of the unborn is 'legal' but definately morally wrong...
2006-06-20 04:24:32 · answer #8 · answered by aBranch@60-WA ,<>< 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ABORTION.
Affirmative action.
2006-06-20 04:24:10 · answer #9 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋