What is the difference between moral and legal culpability?

Answer 1

Culpability literally means "my fault".

From a legal perspective, culpability describes the degree of ones blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offense.

Morality refers to the concept of human ethics which pertains to matters of good and evil —also referred to as "right or wrong",

Certain acts which may be considered to be faults according to personal morality but the same may not be considered to be crime / offense under the applicable law.

Ex: As per moral ethics every debt is to be repaid but according to law a time barred debt is not enforceable.

Answer 2

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What is the difference between moral and legal culpability?

Answer 3

When Mr. Cheney was CEO at Haliburton, he moved much of the accounting and assets off-shore to avoid U.S. taxes and to increase his own income by bonuses based on quarterly profits. Congress (where he was a former member) has made this perfectly legal, and so he was guilty of no crime; he was not legally culpable.

But morally?

Answer 4

An action may be immoral but legal.

I'd say sleeping with your best friend's 16 year old daughter when you are a 52 year old man is pretty immoral, but there's no law against it...

There are any number of situations in which a person could put their hands up and say 'I did not break the law', but we would think them morally reprehensible.