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Originally Posted by Ned
Is the legality of something related to whether or not it is morally acceptable?
In the UK /EC for example, our idiots in government make such absurd laws that I for one have no moral problem in ignoring many of the silliest.
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Anyone who has studied ethics knows that one of its basic tenets is that there is not [necessarily] any relationship between what is moral and what is legal. Moral refers to right and wrong, good and evil. Laws are meant to control behaviors within societies. This control of behavior is necessary [in the view of governments] to maintain an orderly society [within their definition of an "orderly society"]. From a moral philosophical perspective, many laws can be strongly argued to be immoral/evil.