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Originally posted by MikeH
Isn't breaking the law immoral?
Isn't breaking the law immoral?
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something about immoral laws and moral behavior or some such.
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If you can stop it through peaceful means, then you should do that first. War is always a last resort.Originally posted by MikeH
Diplomat, you'd better get busy, there are a lot more countries you need to invade to stop that kind of thing.
In the case of Iraq, we tried 12 years of econ sanctions and no-fly zones which failed to change the humanitarian crisis or to deal with the national security threat. So, war was neccessary at that point.
The US claimed to have a humanitarian and a national security reason to go to war in Bosnia, which we did without formal UN approval. Why not in Iraq?'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"Comment
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What about all the other countries? Why save the Iraqis and not all the others?Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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Was it immoral for blacks to resist segregation? I would say yes.Originally posted by MikeH
Isn't breaking the law immoral?
My point is that if the law is immoral to being with, then breaking it is ok IMO.
Obviously, determining whether or not the law is immoral can be a thorny issue, so I'll help you out.
Diplomat's moral principle #1:
"Any law that causes pain either physical or emotional on a human being, is immoral"'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"Comment
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Say good bye to penal law.Originally posted by The diplomat
"Any law that causes pain either physical or emotional on a human being, is immoral"“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….†(Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)Comment
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Did you read my above post? I believe we should do everything we can to save innocent people from oppression no matter which country they are from, but we should use peaceful means first, and only use force if it is neccessary.Originally posted by MikeH
What about all the other countries? Why save the Iraqis and not all the others?'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"Comment
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Fair enough. So any law that allows the government to put people in prison is immoral.Diplomat's moral principle #1:
"Any law that causes pain either physical or emotional on a human being, is immoral"Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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It would depend on what the prison is like. Simply isolationg people from society (because they are dangerous to society), is not neccessarily immoral.Originally posted by MikeH
Fair enough. So any law that allows the government to put people in prison is immoral.
For example, I could isolate you completely from the rest of society by locking you up in a plush 4 star hotel on a desert island. That would not be immoral since it does not cause you any pain.
But obviously, a lot of the stuff that goes in prisons, is definitely immoral!'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"Comment
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Isolating people from society (esp. their friends and loved ones) causes emotional pain so it's out under your laws I'm afraid.Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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should I rephrase my principle?Originally posted by MikeH
Isolating people from society (esp. their friends and loved ones) causes emotional pain so it's out under your laws I'm afraid.
"Any law that causes pain either physical or emotional, without proper justification, is immoral."'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"Comment
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actually, isolation can cause lots of pain.
most depressives socially and physically isolate themselves, which only exacerbates the situation they're in.B♭3Comment
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what constitutes proper justification? laws?B♭3Comment
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Good so now all I need to do is justify what I'm doing and I can cause as much emotional and physical pain as I want.Originally posted by The diplomat
should I rephrase my principle?
"Any law that causes pain either physical or emotional, without proper justification, is immoral."Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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Great idea! To stop people abusing the system and just justifying anything we'll write down the rules about when you are allowed to cause physical and emotional suffering and call them 'laws'. Then if anyone breaks these laws we can punish them.Originally posted by Q Cubed
what constitutes proper justification? laws?
Now we've got a nice moral system.Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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