Criminal Justice

Why is the law not the highest aspiration of morality?

Laws and morality are totally different things. The law is not moral it is about social norms put into law. It is what is written and argued over, Case Law, that defines its application. For example a drunk driver can kill many people but if a minor technical detail was missed that was pertentant to a conviction, then that driver can escape the law. As tribes evolved, and formed closer ties for survival, they used tribal law so all could bond. More complex laws developed with more complex societies.

Because while everyone wants to be moral having eaten of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, we all know what is good and what is evil, no one wants the actual work involved in being moral.

This means that most humans recognize that the law is pesky in its fair application to everyone. In fact, everyone wants to be the only exception to the law; each human wants to get ahead of the other humans that way. A human being's highest aspiration is succeeding at whatever he or she wants to do, whatever the cost to others. Having a good reputation also is a nice thing, but not working for it.

Textbook, p. 77, Exercise 5.1: Complete the Critical Thinking Exercise

1.Your group must decide on this issue and you are the only one who has taken an ethics course. (Remember you are starving to death, so time is of the essence.)

Identify the important ethical considerations and make a decision on the morally permissible course of action.

Well, in my opinion I think it’s sad for all of them to have a death. I think one of the people should sacrifice and look for help. If not all of them will die. I will talk to them and choose one person to go and look for help. I know I took the ethics course but I will talk to them to choose the person that is more prepare and the most important the one that we see is stronger than everyone. In ethics I think we should take our time to think to safe our life. I know is sad...