2007-09-03 16:45:55 · 9 answers · asked by Always Curious 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
One of Socrates' most famous questions was
"Is something pious because it's good or is something good because it's pious."
What you have to think about is what is right? How do we determine right from wrong? Is it right because when the decision was made it made the most sense, or is it right because more people agree with it. Essentially there will always be varying amounts of right and wrong. And all laws will fall somewhere on a spectrum.
Inevitably someone could find something wrong with the most seemingly right law and someone could find good in the most heinous of laws.
Philosophically speaking you have asked the most important question. What makes something so? And your realization that just because someone made it so or said it was right and wrote it down doesn't mean it is forever accepted as such.
Great Question!!!
2007-09-03 16:54:32 · answer #1 · answered by dapoetic1 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
True. Case in point is the US's slavery and "Jim Crow" laws that treated blacks as property and 3rd class citizens at best. Also the laws denying women the vote. Even parts of the "Patriot Act". These were all laws once-but not "right". Therefore they had to be ammended or changed all together. It's up to the people to recognize unjust laws and demand change. As the people living under those laws we are the true guardians of democracy and "right and wrong".
2007-09-03 16:58:34 · answer #2 · answered by D4gotten1 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It makes it the will of the majority, theoretically, and as long as it is not unconstitutional, what the majority agrees is right is right. If we allowed people individually to decide which laws they thought were "right" and they would comply with, we would have anarchy.
2007-09-03 16:51:23 · answer #3 · answered by makrothumeo2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Sometimes what is legal is not right, and what is illegal is not always wrong.
You just have to decide if being "right" is worth the penalty for breaking a law you feel to be wrong.
Doc
2007-09-03 16:49:11 · answer #4 · answered by Doc Hudson 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nope- laws are there to provide a minimal framework to live life by- don't kill people, don't steal stuff, etc. Immoral and unlawful are two different things.
2007-09-03 16:49:20 · answer #5 · answered by miserable old git 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes it is right arbitrarily.laws whether right or wrong are established by those who protect you voluntarily and act defending your rights.you belong to them and they take responsibility to defend u from foreign elements,keeping aside the practicality of the given situation the laws made by them tend to be right.so,choose a good president next time.
2007-09-03 16:55:15 · answer #6 · answered by ali 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yea correct
but your just stating a fact
2007-09-03 16:49:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arbitrarily. Thanks for asking.
2007-09-03 16:53:50 · answer #8 · answered by lostrebelchild 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, no, and well uh...no.
2007-09-03 16:53:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋