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We’ve made giant strides in technology and science. Not so much in ethics. Ideologies have a way of justifying the most cruel and evil practices of any era. Ours is no exception.
Often, the law is used to justify deeply evil practices. We have had the Jim Crow laws and the Nuremberg laws. We’ve had court rulings that have decided that unlimited and concealed corporate money in politics and government is protected — it’s “free speech”. Guns that are used routinely for mass murder are protected at the expense of human lives. Both slavery and segregation were supported and justified by laws.
Yet the law is somehow portrayed as evidence of morality. We must obey the law. We are a nation of laws. Without laws, all would be chaos.
Nonsense. Bad laws must be identified and disobeyed and ridiculed always by every humane person. And a merciless spotlight must be shone on the evil that these laws condone and make possible.
