Laws are not moral. It is absolutely not morally correct to blindly follow laws and adhere to bureaucracy.
It is “unlawful” for the hungry to take bread from a store while that same store throws away tons of perfectly good bread annually because they didn’t sell it by some arbitrarily set date. How is that morally correct to allow bread to be thrown away instead of simply letting the hungry have food?
Laws are a governments attempt to codify it’s peoples aggregate morality into something enforceable. Something more than just an individuals own judgement.
Without laws society would be governed by the whims of the most powerful individuals.
The existence of laws themselves, are a moral stance against Might Makes Right. So following the law is a moral rule, of it’s own.
Stealing (taking something that doesn’t belong to you) is immoral. So is failing to give something you don’t need, to someone who will die without it. The times when moral rules come into conflict, are exactly the moments I’m talking about when I say “Don’t let your morality get in the way of doing what’s right.” You can’t follow two contradictory rules. So you have to choose what action, in that individual moment, will lead to the best outcome.
As an anarchist I firmly disagree with this entire premise.
We literally live in a society governed by the whims most powerful people as dictated by the hierarchy that “rule of law” and the capitalist system creates. Rule of law got its beginning in the whims of kings deciding that everyone “beneath” them on the social hierarchy should follow their rule or be subject to punishment. The rule of law is literally “might makes right”, you either listen to the authority of those at the top of the hierarchy or they will send the state dogs (the police) to force you into obedience.
Stealing food from a corporate entity is 100% a morally correct action. Stealing itself is an action that cannot be morally judged without understanding the socioeconomic circumstances behind why someone would feel they need to steal in the first place.
Following the law has nothing to do with morality.
Laws are not moral. It is absolutely not morally correct to blindly follow laws and adhere to bureaucracy.
It is “unlawful” for the hungry to take bread from a store while that same store throws away tons of perfectly good bread annually because they didn’t sell it by some arbitrarily set date. How is that morally correct to allow bread to be thrown away instead of simply letting the hungry have food?
There is NOTHING moral about laws.
Laws are a governments attempt to codify it’s peoples aggregate morality into something enforceable. Something more than just an individuals own judgement.
Without laws society would be governed by the whims of the most powerful individuals. The existence of laws themselves, are a moral stance against Might Makes Right. So following the law is a moral rule, of it’s own.
Stealing (taking something that doesn’t belong to you) is immoral. So is failing to give something you don’t need, to someone who will die without it. The times when moral rules come into conflict, are exactly the moments I’m talking about when I say “Don’t let your morality get in the way of doing what’s right.” You can’t follow two contradictory rules. So you have to choose what action, in that individual moment, will lead to the best outcome.
As an anarchist I firmly disagree with this entire premise.
We literally live in a society governed by the whims most powerful people as dictated by the hierarchy that “rule of law” and the capitalist system creates. Rule of law got its beginning in the whims of kings deciding that everyone “beneath” them on the social hierarchy should follow their rule or be subject to punishment. The rule of law is literally “might makes right”, you either listen to the authority of those at the top of the hierarchy or they will send the state dogs (the police) to force you into obedience.
Stealing food from a corporate entity is 100% a morally correct action. Stealing itself is an action that cannot be morally judged without understanding the socioeconomic circumstances behind why someone would feel they need to steal in the first place.
Following the law has nothing to do with morality.