Do you think law is based on morality? and why?

Question

if you think yes then tell me why and give me some proofs and if you think not also tell me why and give me an exampel of an immoral law (it doesn't matter if it's in the recent time or in the past)....... if you can

Answer 1

You have posted this in the Religion and Spirituality section.

Therefore I answer accordingly.


Morality is concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behaviour and character based on those principles.

Therefore morality is based on law.



Man in his disobedience and rebellion seeks to reverse this rather obvious and logical truth and seeks to establish his own self righteousness. He therefore claims law comes from morality, which is plainly absurd.

He is caught in an impossible position. He must either claim the absurd or acknowledge his transgression against God.

I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

If there is no law you cannot break it, nor be a moral creature. The animals are not moral creatures. There is no law for them to break.


The law convicts you of your sin and establishes the principles that morality may be judged by.

Atheists delight to claim that they are moral people but rather foolishly ignore the rather obvious fact the the law has already been revealed to them. Would they prefer to go back to Lord of the Flies?

It is conscience, the awareness of right and wrong based on law revealed, that they seek to pacify by denying God. That is a device employed to set them free to follow their own ideas of morality, i.e. self righteousness, to please themselves rather than God.

It affects us all in that we all use different devices to pacify conscience and enable ourselves to please ourselves and so refuse God His rightful place and His law's requirements.

We are then, all of us, quite immoral.

All laws then can properly only derive their authority from God's law.

Once you depart from that you enter the realm of immoral laws. Here you also have the conflict of man's ideas of moralities (do what you like as long as it doesn't hurt anybody - famous last words, and 'human rights' etc etc) and also the imposition of man's will through man's laws (having little to do with any form of morality) by those with power to oppress others. Thus the law makers are lawless, very common in today’s modern societies. Remember Animal Farm? So called laws based on power of force.

What a mess we are in and must necessarily be when we reject the Absolute and 'worship' the relative.

We do not and cannot have rights, except possibly a right to judgement, and neither can we have any morality until we seek what is right and this we cannot do until we confess our rebellion and disobedience to God and His law, and this we will not do.

Answer 2

Hmm. I think morals come from living under and obeying laws. However laws are created by one person or a group of persons in power who come to a conscious agreement of what should be considered best for the people they lead.

I.E. - the question should be - "Which came first - morality or law?"

Here's something I heard of recently....
There was a Mexican man who lived in the USA for over 15 years sending money back to his family in mexico so they wouldn't be in poverty - he lived a simple life and worked his days in the fields. Admittedly, he was here illegally, however he was working a job that most americans would consider themselves too good for. Finally the man saves up a good 50,000 dollars and decides to go back to mexico and retire. At the border, the American Border Patrol decide that this man shouldn't be allowed to take so much american money/cash back into mexico and decide that they will only allow him to keep 10,000 dollars and they keep/confiscate the other 40g's. Seriously. This is a true story - the border patrol tell him if he tries to fight it, he'll just get deported and he still won't be able to keep his money. The man fights it, most likely he didn't want the border patrol to keep it for themselves without reporting it. Then he gets deported. He is still trying to get his money back, to little avail, with the US government. Do you think it's right? Do 2 wrongs make a right? I don't know much about border patrol laws, whether it's actually a written law or not about the 10 grand over the border - but I do believe that a person should be more than allowed to keep what they worked for.

Answer 3

Most laws built through relgious influence are created to control the population...
racial laws like segregation is one good example of this type of law... also in the United States they still use these laws, such as the college electoral vote... which was put in place to prevent the black vote from counting... and if this law would not have still been in use George W Bush would have never been made president.

Laws like this founded on religions never serve to free humanity only to oppress which is proof that things done in the name of religion have never had anything to do with morality.

Laws that give freedom or ensure rights and freedoms are generally the laws that are faught by religions ... and since far to many of our laws are based on the religious mentality one could be assured that most laws have absolutely nothing to do with morality and should actually be done away with if any progress towards justice will ever come.

Answer 4

Some laws aren't about morals but about organization and cooperation. Anarchy advances the individual sometimes but rarely helps the community. Order is a necessary component of civilization.

I suppose you could take the point that our ethic is that civilization is good, that order is therefore desirable, and so we make laws to create order (drive on a certain side of the road.) But it is hard to find an underlying moral imperative for much of our ordering through legislation.

Robert Heinlein's tome "Starship Troopers" is actually a pretty decent civic theory textbook in some places. Recommended.

Answer 5

Laws are based on morality. The immoral law for example was the Nazi-law excluding jews from all public offices.
The change in looking at gays changed the laws drastically. In nearly all of Europe there is no law against gays anymore. Here in Spain we can marry like a hetero couple. Except in church (based on their view of morality)

Answer 6

Yes

Why?
You can see today society based law , that is why we facing a lot of crimes rape, marriages are broke down, so on you name it all evil, look one example 'Jerry Springer" show nothing but immoral, we must have moral based society/ moral based law

Answer 7

Absolutely, In the United States anyway. Our first government was begun by the Puritans when they first settled. There was no separation between religion and state. Thankfully it has gotten better, but many of our laws origins came from the religious thinking of our first government officials.

Answer 8

Laws really are reflective of the concerns of a society. You don't bother making a law about something you're not concerned about, as a rule. They can be moral, sure, but they can also be petty, trivial, oppressive, etc.

Peace to you.

Answer 9

The Law, as far as I can see, is based on the need to control people's actions.

Answer 10

Good morals will lead to good laws. Bad morals will lead to bad laws. Every law is legislating SOMEONE'S morality (or immorality!).