the law vs morality and why they are so different from each other
recently I've been learning a few things about the law, and I was surprised by how unjust and immoral it is, most of us think of the law as something that must be held in high regard, and if someone breaks it we treat them like a plague simply because they are "criminals", but is that really right for us to think and do?
after all the law is a man-made construct designed to organize society, right and wrong is only its second concern, the first is to make sure everything goes smoothly and nothing goes by the government, which is a whole other problem, it's true that most countries are democratic now but that doesn't mean the government isn't in control, take taxes for example, if the people were really in charge no one would pay them.
I believe right and wrong should be the main concern of the law because the original goal of the law is to provide a tool to protect morality.
morality s sacred, it's like an instinct, you intuitively know what's humanly right and what's not.
superheroes fly around saving people and punching bad guys, it's true that's illegal but we still love them because it's the right thing to do.
which makes me wonder, is it immoral to break the law?
how about the opposite, is it lawful to break morality?
well, the second question is easy to answer, we have visual proof that you can be the worst person ever and get away with it, heck with good enough lawyers you could be found innocent of even murder, which says a lot about how the law works.
the first question is hard to answer because opinions vary from one person to another, me personally? I think it's not immoral to break the law, I actually think that in some cases breaking the law is the MORAL thing to do, for example, the law forces you to report crimes, and if you don't you're considered an accomplice, but what if the person who did the crime was a good person that you love, a friend or family or a romantic interest, and what if the crime was victimless, is it truly moral to be disloyal to that person just because someone made it a rule that you should report crimes?
how about a more controversial case, if a rapist is about to get away due to a technicality, is it moral to just let him?
how about taxes, is it moral for governments to take away people's money just because they couldn't come up with an economic system where they don't have to do that?
the law is a man-made construct, it's necessary but it's still faulty, just like humans are, it's needed to keep order, but while it's necessary for the majority to follow it it's also necessary for the minority to break it to introduce a little bit of chaos because evolution can only exist with both chaos and order, people who are powerful enough have a moral duty and responsibility to choose morality over the law to pull some strings for the rapists to not get away with their crimes and for the people to have better lives because at the end of the day the law changes and develops but morality doesn't change and doesn't get swayed by the selfish desires of the greedy and evil.