Do you live your life believing that when something is illegal, it is immoral? And I don't mean what you feel, I mean how you behave around other people.
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Cheery Cherry
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No. It is not my place to judge. I would make a comment about something that is illegal if it would get me in trouble. And I would leave if I was unconfortable with a person being legal and/or immoral.
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No I don't. I don't recognize the law as the moral standard. While I agree that murder is immoral and think it should be against the law, I don't think anyone who uses drugs is immoral just because it's against the law. So I don't treat them as immoral people. Morality and the law are entirely separate to me... some laws I think are based in morality while other laws I think are immoral... and some laws are just amoral...
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No, I do not believe the law sets a moral standard. But, I do find it immoral to act against the law. Does that make sense?
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In my own judgement, something can be "illegal" but not necessarilly "inmoral". For example, running through a red traffic light is not legal because it defies an existing law, but as it relates to moral ethics, it seems to be more perceptual than tangible.
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Having sex outside of marriage is not illegal. Doesn't mean that I will do it.
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I never connected illegal with immoral in my life.
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