Ethics and Law Ethics are what define whether a law is good or bad. Without moral definition, the very basis of a government would never exist. ... Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."" ... "A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. ... Simply by writing the eloquent letter in spite of his race and political situation, he emphasizes the need to be socially aware and intelligent no matter how a government tries to oppress. ...

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There are many similarities and differences between Hammurabi's laws, the Hittites laws, and the Hebrew Laws. ... Some of our laws today used these sets of laws as foundations and that is why we find some of our very own laws often strict and hard to live by, but even today without them, we would revert to chaos as a solution. ... These laws today we know as the Ten Commandments. They used to be in school and in almost every building a person could go into but today the government has stepped in and taken these commandments out of public buildings. ... The same holds true for the Hittite ...

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There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. ... Civil disobedience is the breaking of man-made laws, as opposed to understood "good" natural laws. ... Civil disobedience is disobeying a government-made law that is wrong, but anarchy is the want for no government at all. ... One comes to believe after reading this story that Antigone does not desire for no government, she just wants a just and right law system, which was not so during the time of her story. ... Obv...

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The best government is one that lets people freely choose the way they live... You want your printer to work compared with you want a law changed. Taking the wrong cable is like taking the wrong approach to get the law changed; it will not work. ... Compared this means that getting the law changed it will only happen in the correct situation. The computer is the government and the electricity is the friction is the injustice that makes that makes it run. ...

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If he had any problems with any of these laws, he could have left in search of a better government. He admits himself that there are two perfect governments. ... Augustine with, "An unjust law is no law at all." King goes on to explain that a just law is a law that uplifts human personality and it squares with moral law. In addition, an unjust law is a law that degrades human personality and is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. ...

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Civil Disobedience both a right and responsibility of a person to fight an unjust law. Government is given the right to control a group of people by the people composing the group. ... Often society has laws that individuals feel is immoral, or unjust. ... Antigone shows us, thru Civil Disobedience, that breaking some of societies laws is both a right and responsibility. ...

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Sophocles' play "Antigone- illustrates the conflict between obeying human and divine law. ... Oedipus' brother in law Creon then assumes the throne. ... Thus the theme of this play becomes the priority of unwritten law. ... Antigone believes that the unwritten and natural law supercedes any form of human written law. ... He believes that government and law is the supreme authority, and civil disobedience is worst form of sin. ...

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A government steals military secrets to protect their countries interests. ... Government and people often justify killing a few to prevent the discomfort or death of many. ... It is obvious by what our governments actions and the actions of others that people determine the true meaning of the Commandments to their own benefit. ... These imperative laws are those which apply to most circumstances and are a fix all. ... I think that he believes in universal laws which exceed all others for all people. ...

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Socrates is allowing the government to wrongfully accuse him. ... Socrates explains that the city has given him birth through the law of matrimony and the marriage of his parents. ... The laws in any state of government are made to protect the people. ... If Socrates were to flee, he would be destroying the laws and the city itself. The government would have no foundation if its verdicts were insignificant. ...

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When a citizen is practicing the actions of being courageous, he follows the laws set by the government. If one is breaking any of the laws, he does not attain the virtue of courage. ... They are fearless, courageous, willing to give everything they have to protect the government and their families. This makes them work with the laws set by the government and therefore makes them courageous. But just because one follows the laws does not make him a good man. ...

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Webster's Dictionary defines justice as the quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. ... The example he gives I that the government makes up laws to help itself and declares just for their people. ...

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Webster's Dictionary defines justice as the quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. ... The example he gives I that the government makes up laws to help itself and declares just for their people. ...

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Bentham was an opponent of natural law. He referred to natural law as nonsense on stilts. Bentham believed law was a command of a legislator. So, unless nature was a being issuing commands, one could not speak of natural laws. ... A measure of government may be said to be conformable to or dictated by principle of utility, when in like manner the tendency that it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any which it has to diminish it. ...

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The points of the laws we have are to codify the ethics that dictate the entire operation of a society. Therefore those laws should be flexible enough to accommodate for every conceivable circumstance, or to be lenient enough to allow people to impose their own ethical standards on every different situation. ... However there is no easy and complete way in which government can judge intent. ... Until that moment comes, I think that we must rely on set rules that every person has and on governmental enforcement in order to survive in this world. ... However in most cases of abortion, gove...

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Could our government's laws be ethically wrong? ... We can view the government's ethics through war. ... If our own government doesn't have a love for humanity who will? ... If the government were morally wrong, why would we follow some the standards that seem unjust. Why do we constantly follow the government's laws since a young age if they are tainted with possible corruption? ...

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His first formulation of the universal law states that one should act only according to the maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ... Imagine that you are a tax expert and you know that you can falsify your records without getting caught (so that you pay the government less than is legally required). ...

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In our government, Members of our government in positions of authority decide everything in our lives in the form of laws which determine our behavior. One of the most important documents written by our government is the Declaration of Independence. ...

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The Law Test: H.B. ... Their control measures, which included, rendering assistance to the social workers and reducing availability of the product were well within the confines of the law. 2. ... The firm argued that the government's failure to provide a comfortable social environment was a major factor in the children's abuse of the product. ... In addition HB Fuller failed to compensate the victims instead they attempted to pass on the responsibility for compensation, etc to the parent company as well as the government. 3. ... The Responsibilities of the firm To the society v ...

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The arguments range from moral ethics, religious teachings, and even to questionable parts of the law which may debate allowing abortion. ... Now some people would try and reverse this argument and pose the question of when does killing a living organism become murder, however, this has already been defined under the law. ... Now under Canadian law as it stands fetuses DO NOT have the right to a life , however, let us say that under Canadian law that fetuses did have the right to a life it would still not have the right to use the pregnant mother's body against the ...

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The government of Pakistan fails to place and ensure the protection of human rights for mentally disordered persons. ... However, the Pakistan citizens and patients are being misused and abused and do not bother telling authorities because of loss of trust and faith in the Pakistan government and judicial system. ... This is an example of violating the minimum wage law and the labour law. ... This brings us to the debate about the legal age for buying cigarettes and whether distributors are following these laws. 5. ...

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A government that was ruled by the people was suggested as opposed to a monarchy that had existed for many years. ... Antigone feels as though long-lasting by the laws of the gods, is value to follow. ... He thinks his law is the most important. Creon is unwilling to put the god's law above his own. ... He instead puts his laws first, and states that if he lets Antigone live after she has broken his law, he could not earn his countries obedience. ...

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The difficulty with monitoring and limiting public access to certain kinds of genetic, bio and nanotechnologies seems to be with patent laws (or the lack thereof), and intellectual property rights as these are things outside of military restrictions would alleviate some of the problem with unethical use. ... Had they have done so, as did Joseph Rotblat after learning of the governments true intentions and removed himself from the project, the outcome would have been in favor of humanity and life. ... In agreeance with Cornwell, a true scientist's role in society is to have a moral and et...

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Thomas believed that governments have a moral responsibility to serve people and to help them lead virtuous lives. He declared that governments must not violate what he considered human rights--life, education, religion, and reproduction. Thomas also taught that--to be just--laws passed by human beings must not contradict divine law." ...

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"In Civil Disobedience", Henry David Thoreau, stresses on the true importance of the individual and his power to alter governmental injustices. ... King combines this effectively and wisely inserts it in the piece, thus appealing to his selected audience in the ethical aspect: "One who breaks the unjust law must do so openly, lovingly and with a willingness to accept the penalty". ... In conclusion, both pieces emphasize on the rights and duties of the individual when he encounters unjust laws and actions. ...

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One can find my reasoning in the fourth paragraph of the article, "the French penal law is applicable to all offenses committed by a French citizen "within or without" French territory." ... Euthyphro's response to this is that it doesn't matter because his father murdered and that is against the law. ... But in order to have this sense of "safety" one needs to have their leviathan, such as a king or government that can uphold the "laws" that are created between the people. ... An example of this would be if my friends Bob and Frank and I went into the veil of ignorance and made a la...

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