I agree obeying the law is a good rule of thumb: most of the time you should automatically obey it because it's (1) normally for the benefit of the majority more than the alternative and (2) gets you put in jail less.
So it might tip the balance. However, while fascinated by the different legal responses to the situation, I can't bring myself to subsume my morality in *anyone* else's entirely.
My intent was that almost all the time one rule would turn out to carry more weight, either by being more relevent, applying to a person you care about more, or being more important, and in other situations there basically wasn't any right answer. But I was going to expound upon that at length in my next chapter.
Re: Debate
Date: 2005-04-07 11:13 am (UTC)So it might tip the balance. However, while fascinated by the different legal responses to the situation, I can't bring myself to subsume my morality in *anyone* else's entirely.
My intent was that almost all the time one rule would turn out to carry more weight, either by being more relevent, applying to a person you care about more, or being more important, and in other situations there basically wasn't any right answer. But I was going to expound upon that at length in my next chapter.