Transcript Lec 21 PowerPoint

 Who is going to hell?
 Whose actions are
moral?
 Does Karl exhibit
virtues or vices?
 What about the
mother?
Lec 21
Legality and Morality
If morality lined up with
legality, we wouldn’t have
much thinking to do…
http://www.ted.com/talkssam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right.html
http://www.ted.com/talkssam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right.html
http://www.ted.com/talkssam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right.html
Someone has defined ethics
as the difference between
legality and morality.
What can that mean?
The Difference Between Public and
Private Morality Robert Reich March 13, 2012
“Republicans have morality upside down.
Santorum, Gingrich, and even Romney are
barnstorming across the land condemning gay
marriage, abortion, out-of-wedlock births,
access to contraception, and the wall separating
church and state.”
The Difference Between Public and
Private Morality Robert Reich March 13, 2012
“But America’s problem isn’t a breakdown in
private morality. It’s a breakdown in public
morality. What Americans do in their
bedrooms is their own business. What
corporate executives and Wall Street financiers
do in boardrooms and executive suites affects
all of us.”
Baby Joseph flown to a U.S.
hospital
March 13, 2011
Catholic school students sent
home for displaying pro-choice
stance
Hasidic women
in Brooklyn
ride in
the back of
the bus…
Hasidic women
in Brooklyn
ride in
the back of
the bus…
Hasidic women
in Brooklyn
ride in
the back of
the bus…
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967),[1] was a
landmark civil rights case in which the
United States Supreme Court, in a
unanimous decision, declared Virginia's antimiscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity
Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby
overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and
ending all race-based legal restrictions on
marriage in the United States.
Still today:
29 % of Mississippi
Republicans think that
miscegenation should be
illegal.
2012 Omnibus Crime Bill passes…
Civil disobedience
What makes breaking the law an act of civil
disobedience?
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Intention
Non-violence
Publicity
Willingness to accept the legal
consequences
“There are a thousand
hacking at the branches
of evil for every one
hacking at the root.”
Not everything that is immoral is also illegal.
Not everything that is illegal is also immoral.
Not everything that is immoral is also illegal.
Not everything that is illegal is also immoral.
But there is overlap…
Moral Crusades:
Trying to enshrine your personal morality in law…
Prohibition
Smoking
Prostitution
Marijuana
Abortion etc. etc.
Jonathan Haidt
the moral roots of liberals and
conservatives
http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html
Strohmeyer and Cash
David Cash Jr.
Mother rages against indifference
Injury...
Recompense...
“Each one [of us] has a certain
right in the common exterior
goods of this world, and this
right cannot be licitly
renounced.”
”God, the father of all, has given no one...such
a Property...but that he has given his Brother
a right to Surplussage of his goods; so that it
cannot justly be denied him when his
pressing Want calls for it.”
•Defining the laws of war
•Safeguarding the human rights of individuals
involved in combat
•Dignity, liberty, equality and brotherhood
•Spiritual, public and political rights
•Economic, social and cultural rights
•Morality, public order and the general welfare
•Draws attention to Human Rights abuses
•Pressures governments to comply
•Protects non-violent expression of political views
•Promotes Articles 18 & 19 of the UDHR
•Awarded 1977 Nobel Peace Prize
and the unconscious violinist
and the unconscious violinist
Kony 2012
$5 million / first 48 hrs…
Over 70 million hits…
How to know?