What kind of society do we live in if our creators, those who try to bring something better into the world, have to rely on lawyers to defend their rights? Especially when said lawyers cost a hefty price. Coming from a father involved in the education of law, it has always been instilled in me to obey the law even though it may rub my ideals and idea of common sense the wrong way. As I come more and more into my own though I'm beginning to realize just how wrong our law makers are about many topics. And I'm not talking about subjectively wrong, where the sides are debatable but the facts are agreed upon; I'm talking about those in Washington who eat up the lobbyists' skewed facts and opinions like a Scientologist eats up claims of extraterrestrials from a former science-fiction writer kind of wrong.
The question now then, for me at least, is to what extent can I break the law and feel justified? If the laws do not make sense for our society, if they hurt our society as a whole and not just a few inevitable individuals, is it no longer wrong to break the law in a certain, increasing, number of cases?
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While maybe not entirely useful, I would like to point out that our society is also quite unforgiving. From time to time a major person who has wronged the country in some way actually comes forward and apologizes, I dont know that I have ever heard someone attempt to forgive them. I'm not talking forgive completely, but accept that people will make mistakes.
While this even to me sounds a bit quixotic, I see its use coming in when someone in the spotlight does screw up, he or she must be sure to find a way to twist thigns to make themselves right. To get to your blog post, a stupid or out of date law that has been made must then be justified by the maker, even if he or she sees the absurdidty of it. If this person does not convince us that it is in fact useful, and instead accepts resposibility and error, it is more likely that he/she will take a trip to the gallos than have an honest chance at mending the error.
I think that's an interesting point. I agree that some people like to break the law, just because of the thrill in knowing they are doing something they probably should not be doing. In the case of illegal downloading, personally I do not see it as a high-end crime, therefore if I do it, I don't think I will feel morally wrong because I did it.
If the law is hurting the society as a whole, perhaps it could be justified to break it. However, I don't think it's good to give people an impression that breaking the law's not a big deal or a good thing because that could lead to more people breaking "good" laws. Therefore, maybe more efforts should be made on getting rid of laws laws that hurt the society.
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