law or ethics what's more important?

Question

And what's more important to you
(2 questions)
this simply means would you rather follow the law or do whats right (even if it means breaking the law?)

Answer 1

Ethics, hands down. I answer to a Higher Power. I believe in following the laws of man, but then I have several things come to mind. One is the underground railroad that helped slaves escape to the north. Good people risked their lives and property to do good, and they were breaking the "law."

Answer 2

That is a loaded question.
I would go for the law first and foremost. WHY? most of the time, the law is clear cut and obvious. At a given time, the law is also appears as the fairest choice.

When the law becomes blurry, and this happens, it should be brought into the attention of men of the law who has the most practical wisdom and experience in the law (Supreme courts)

Ethics is applied in fields where there is no law or the law as we know it becomes inapplicable. Good examples can easily be found in medicine. Who gives the ethical decision to unplug a person on life support? Who has the final decision on terminating a pregnancy?

Man has grappled with ethics of right and wrong. We would be so lucky if law is so clear cut 100 % of the time. This is why we follow policies, and protocols since we like to hide behind them. It is safest there. It is easiest to cast stones from there.

If all of mankind had stood behind those stones all the time, there would never have been changes in our plethora of human acceptable behavior. There would still be age, sex, and social discrimination, no women suffrage, no business ventures, no education. Science would have halted in its tracks, and we never progressed, nor became educated nor evolved.

Modification of behavior from learning experiences is the basis of law. Simply put, we learn from mistakes.

The problem with a singular person doing ethical behavior on their own is obvious. It is not obvious, nor is it written anywhere, therefore it is unlawful.
You need to preach and educate everybody to your point of view. When you do not do this, you are labeled a radical troublemaker.
Ethical people . Some had gone by the wayside because their touted ethical behavior never became the acceptable and lawful behavior. Some became the origins of current hard earned benefits we take for granted today.
God bless these people who stuck their necks out and demanded that society take another look at accepted behavior.God bless and thanks as well.

Answer 3

I believe ethics is by far the way to go , the law is rules made by society to live by and many times our so called leaders will vote for a bill just to appease some of their loudest complainers, when the law should never be passed in the first place as it will hurt many more people than it helps, and our great law enforcement personnell will always go for the small violators as they are not as dangerous, did you never notice that if you go slightly over the speed limit and it is out in the country and no traffic on the road , you will be stopped and given a ticket, while there is a robbery or break in just down the street, our cops know when some one is going to blow them away.and it is not the speeder,

Answer 4

Laws. They are supposed to reflect our ethics as individuals
and as groups. When they don't work, we need to change them, not violate them because we think our ethics are better then the originators. What if everybody did that.

We need to sell our ideas; not force them.

Answer 5

Ethics!!!!!!!!!!! 120 percent. You can only count on your ethics. You can't count on law. Law is too wishy-washy. Ethics are firm.

Answer 6

ethics!, human laws are NOT always ethical.

Answer 7

ethics