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Laws reflect our absolute morality which is very existent. We say we have laws to ensure that everybody's rights protected. Well, to say that everybody has rights and that it is right to protect them, we are making a moral judgement. Or you might say the reason we have laws is to keep the human species from killing itself off. But it's a moral judgment to say that it's right to keep the human species alive. There's no way to separate morality from law.

2007-03-15 05:35:35 · answer #1 · answered by Nivk 2 · 0 0

Law doesn't have anything to do with morality. The basic law for humans has always been survival of the fittest. Laws in society developed as a result of the development of clans, which resulted in a heirarchy. If someone didn't respect the heirarchy, they were either killed or expelled from the clan. "Modern" civilization has taken this to an extreme in order to maintain order of much larger groups. Morality only comes into the equation if the leaders, or lawmakers, consider morality as an important consideration in their decision making. If we, the people, don't like the particular morality of the laws that govern us, we have several choices to resolve our disapproval. For example, we could move to a different place, goverened by different laws, we could vote (in some areas) to change the laws, we could rebel (an extreme measure, usually not recommended) or we could protest, or just deal with it.

When you are talking about "absolute" morality, you are talking about a social morality. For the most part, however, morality is a personal issue, and generally speaking, we all have an absolute moral code that we live by. For example, most of us may be willing to break some laws, like speeding, but we wouldn't be willing to break others, like robbing a bank or killing someone. Not necessarily because it is against the law, but because it is wrong, morally speaking.

By the way, there are many people who would argue that there is absolute morality.

2007-03-15 05:26:58 · answer #2 · answered by www.lvtrafficticketguy.com 5 · 0 0

Law is necessary to protect individual rights. The fact that there is no absolute morality means that law must provide a guideline for what is and is not acceptable in our society. Actions like rape, theft, and murder all have a negative effect on society and should not be allowed or permitted. This is why we have laws prohibiting such activities.

2007-03-15 05:17:21 · answer #3 · answered by msi_cord 7 · 0 0

You sorta answered your own question in your question.

Since there is no absolute morality, we can only control ourselves using the morality of the majority (the laws made by legislatures elected by the people or voted on directly by the people). It aint perfect, but its the best we can do.

2007-03-15 05:17:20 · answer #4 · answered by EthanHunt 3 · 1 0

The fact that there is no absolute morality is why we need law.

There has to be some standard to hold people to - otherwise people might see it as permissible to go around stealing and killing and such. Morals are subjective - laws (hypothetically) aren't.

2007-03-15 05:13:40 · answer #5 · answered by Sarah J 1 · 3 1

Laws are there and necessary to protect the individual rights to existence; morality is pretty personal and as long as it does not encroach into another's life, it does not and should indeed not attract legal attention!

2007-03-15 05:15:28 · answer #6 · answered by Sami V 7 · 3 1

Laws? Good people don't need them and bad people won't follow them. You do the math.

2007-03-15 05:24:59 · answer #7 · answered by Ajax 3 · 0 0

We need laws so that someone doesn't put a cap in you, just for being ignorant.

2007-03-15 05:14:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

good folks are harder to find,even they need law and order.

2007-03-15 05:14:48 · answer #9 · answered by tom the plumber 3 · 1 1

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