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What is the relation between law and morality? Do they always go hand in hand, or is there such things as immoral laws or illegal morality? Jean
April 3, 2006
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Racist laws and laws concerning slaves provide examples of how legality and morality come apart. A law could make it legal to keep slaves, even if that is immoral; a law could prohibit one from helping someone of another race, even if that is morally obligatory. You can fail to do what is right without breaking any law, and breaking a law may not be immoral.