Do you think just because something is legal means it is morally good? Also, if something is illegal means it is morally bad?

[Anonymous]

Yes

No

Something Else

[HighlyVolatile]

Not in the slightest. I don't think cheating on a partner is morally good, but it's legal. I don't think smoking weed is the biggest deal, but it's illegal.

Law has very little to do with ethics as I see it. I remember someone on here taking the piss out of me for not abiding by laws when I saw them wrong. From their standpoint, I'm a barbarian. From mine, they are blind sheep.

My ideas of right and wrong are my own. They are not formed by law. If the law deems that something I think is right is suddenly wrong, then I will suffer the consequences, but I will not be persuaded into thinking I'm wrong.

[HighlyVolatile]

It's been a trend of mine since childhood. I remember kids in kindergarten saying, "Ooh, you said a bad word! I'm going to tell the teacher!" You know, snitches. And technically we weren't supposed to say that according to the rules -- the law of kindergarten land if you will -- but those snitches were even more wrong as I saw than the people who said some crap. Because they were driven by sheep-like thinking and cowardice and the desire to make everyone conform to their hard-ass authoritarian rules. These people are the most miserable plagues upon mankind.

[OlderAndWiser]

When I counsel with my clients, I always say “having the legal right to do something doesn’t mean that it’s the right thing to do.”

[NathanDavis]

no... a very good example of this is how in the USA, it is absolutely legal for cops and detectives to lie and trick you in order to make you confess yourself guilty of a crime you did not commit

[SlangSlayer]

What's morally acceptable in one culture might not be in another?

So the morals thing don't mean nothing.

[Nata2496]

No, human laws aren't always where God's laws are.

[SaoirseS]

No and no.