Who is going to hell?

Whose actions are moral?

Does Karl exhibit virtues or vices?

What about the mother?

Lec 21Legality 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. hospitalMarch 13, 2011

Catholic school students sent home for displaying pro-choice stance

Hasidic women in Brooklyn ride inthe back of the bus…

Hasidic women in Brooklyn ride inthe back of the bus…

Hasidic women in Brooklyn ride inthe 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 anti-miscegenation 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?

•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…

ProhibitionSmokingProstitutionMarijuanaAbortion 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?