Through these examples one can understand that ethics is an entity in itself, separate from the legal system set forth by the governing power of a country. Aside from the fact that deviance is simply unavoidable, and arguably natural, it is justifiable in instances where what is ethical does not lie within the legal bounds set forth by the majority. Historical evidence proves that a person acting within legal bounds can be performing acts of an unethical nature despite the approval of the law; while history also shows that the inverse, acting outside of legal bounds, can be categorized as ethical when the laws being deviated from violate the overarching beliefs of what is morally correct held by the human race. To do what feels natural is to follow the inherent morals humans feel, and with that comes deviation in one form or another - but fear not, because deviance is not the enemy or a negative to tarnish a person’s character; deviance is simply disobedience and civil disobedience is acceptable at times due to the sizable, aforementioned evidence that the law does not imply proper ethics, which is evident when examining history and the laws entangled in it, specifically the shifting policies, pushing forth the ever present truth that a governed society does not inherently imply a perfect…
The author Frank Trippets states that ‘Americans are used to thinking that law-and-order is threatened by only violent crime, but the foundation of social order are profoundly shaken when ordinary law-abiding take to skirting the law’. The author has some valid points when he says this. Small laws can hurt the community when people who regularly obey the law are breaking the law in small ways. People are just to used to hearing about the big crimes that people just might not give a damn about the small laws. Some people who might be against this will probably say that the law obeying people are accidentally breaking the small laws, because they don’t know them.…
To judge whether breaking a law makes a criminal, first we must define the terms law and crime. Every society makes and enforces laws that govern the conduct of the individuals. Without law we cannot live. Laws maximizes our individual right, facilitate the orders of our society, and it keeps peace in our civilization. The violation of those duties that he or she owes to society and for the breach of which the law provides is defined as a crime. Breaking the law does not always constitute criminality. Law is created within the ethical realm of human’s principles, therefore laws fluctuates as our perception changes. To answer our question whether breaking a law makes a criminal, we must examine further to see if the action committed is incriminating by the criminal intent.…
Breaking the law is morally justifiable and acceptable when the law in itself is iniquitous and if that law violates human rights and conscience; Certainly, rules are established for us to follow but we as human beings should be able to differentiate the right and the wrong and incase laws need to be violated for the right cause even with hard consequences, breaking the law can be justified; considering the situations and the purposes.…
To most people, the idea of following the laws and the moral code of society is an accepted expectation in everyday life. Although personal definitions of “morality” and one’s established guide for behavior differs between individuals, abiding by the laws comes naturally to the majority because of their recognition…
Safe roads are everyone’s concern, and it’s doubtful that anyone would oppose reasonable measures to enhance traffic safety. Considering the higher number of accidents that involve young drivers, the motivation behind restrictive driving laws is understandable. To promote responsibility some states have passed laws intended to keep young drivers off the roads after dark and to ensure that an adult driver accompanies them during daylight hours. However, these laws prejudicially target one portion of the population for unusually harsh punishment.…
It was once said that “rules were made to be broken;” however, in actuality, rules were made to establish order. It might seem that the purpose of laws it to establish and keep order in society, however, things don’t always pan out. Despite the purpose of laws, some laws are unjust in the sense that they are unethical or they may keep one from achieving a virtuous act for society, while, on occasion, one is authorized by the government to break a law, justifying the fact than some laws are all right to be broken.…
There are two kinds of people: people who follow rules or people who break them. All throughout history and during modern times, there has been people who are obedient to laws and ones who will rebel against them. When rules are established, individuals choose whether they will follow them or not. The individuals make their decisions, but what makes them sure of them? Things that guide confident decisions to follow rules or break established rules are deciding whether something is ethical, if they are better off breaking the rules, and if they are better off following them.…
Laws are being created and amended each day. As the people, we look up to laws to help protect us. But many people have lost their faith in our laws. Some people may think “why do we have ethics if we have laws to govern our behavior?” The best answer that I can come up with is no ethics, no laws. According to Ruggiero ethics is the reason that we have laws in the first place.…
A Majority of car crashes happen among teenage drivers for a ton of reasons. If you think about having laws in place for only teenage drivers, it actually only delays the fatal car crash rates for sixteen year olds to eighteen year olds. Laws can’t be made up to help cops be aware of all the laws teens are breaking. There have been 1,348 fewer deadly crashes involving sixteen year old drivers, but at the same time there have been 1,086 more fatal crashes that involved eighteen year olds (www.well.blogs.nytimes.com). One thing that people need to know is that there are no laws that can make teenagers stop being teenagers. So thus, no law could be in place to help ensure the responsibility of teen drivers behind the wheel.…
In some situations, people are breaking the law and aren't even aware of it. For example; when fire bans have been enforced on hot days, some people are still using their barbecues, or when businesses submit false taxation details, because of miscalculations. Not much can be done about this, because of the unawareness of the offender.…
“In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics, he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” - Immanuel Kant…
Today drivers are accumulating more and more unsafe habits with their vehicles. In my family numerous of people have bad driving habits from my grandpa to my cousin. A lot of them tend to constantly forget about safe driving habits. Although some realize they have these problems most still continue to break laws and put the people they love or don't even know lives in jeopardy.…
Take my dad for example where ever we have lived my dad need a big sound system. The neighbors always became upset but dad rarely ever changed because it was his property and he did not care one bit. The cops never came to take my dad to jail for breaking this law just after a while my dad and the neighbor got everything fixed. At Santana High School there are many students who go here and all of they should be in jail. Every student on the campus has littered. That is one of the reasons why we have janitors and they have to work so hard because theses students just throw trash or leave trash on the ground and walk away. If ‘Minor’ laws matter so much then arrest everyone at Santana High…
I am sure that most of us would be reading newspapers or listening to news on radio or TV. And more often than not, one of the headlines these days cover a scam or corruption conducted by the very people who have been entrusted with a responsibility to make or protect the laws of the land. And sadly, the extent of such transgressions is increasing with each passing day. In the wake of such woeful commentary on the state of affairs in our country, I am bound to be one with the fact that “Law Makers are now Law Breakers”.…