Yet, despite the equality and order that law brings, there are many who despise the laws. They believe the rules are immoral, and that law inhibits a human’s free will. In “Antigone”, Antigone feels Creon’s decree unethical. To her, it goes without saying that all the dead should be buried. Everyone will die at some point, and no matter how we acted in life, we deserve burial, regardless of what a law says. This is just a literary example of the idea that laws may be immoral. Laws are written to address an overall issue, to maintain order in a large, stereotypical sense. They cannot possibly see every nuance of a situation, and therefore cannot apply to all of them. If someone does something for a legitimate, moral reason, then legal
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Laws promote conformity and strip humans of individuality. Humans are born with emotion and free will. Mankind is supposed to be able to make choices, to use their intuition to solve problems. Laws suppress these characteristics. By telling us what to do and how to act, laws effectively turn people into beings no more autonomous than programmed machines. Take Tim O’Brien in his work, “On the Rainy River”, as an example. He wanted nothing to do with the Vietnam War, and if he had a choice, he easily would have declined the draft notice. Unfortunately, the law gave him no choice, as it made the draft mandatory. It took away his free will, and coupled with the example of Creon’s unethical decree, shows that laws are not that great, and can be immoral and …show more content…
A very common excuse used is religion. Religion has long been a huge factor in people’s lives. According to Linda Alchin in “Medieval Religion”, in medieval times, the Catholic Church even trumped the government in many countries. Religion gave people a belief system, a reason to live, and a sense of comfort about death. Therefore, many people would follow religion over even government. Priests became powerful, and religion thrived. It united groups of people, separated groups of people, and even caused wars between groups of people. But arguably the most important contribution of religion is the morals it instills in mankind. They preach kindness, compassion, and helpfulness, but also to have certain views towards certain situations, one of these being same-sex marriage. According to David Masci and Michael Lipka in “Where Christian churches, other religions stand on gay marriage”, all major religions, especially the largest in the world, Catholicism, disapprove of same-sex marriage; only Presbyterians and a few smaller movements approve of it. And this perspective is reflected in each religion’s followers, too. According to Alan Blinder and Tamar Lewin in their New York Times article, “Clerk in Kentucky Chooses Jail Over Deal on Same-Sex Marriage”, on July 1, 2015, following the June 26 same-sex marriage ruling, a Kentucky
Laws promote conformity and strip humans of individuality. Humans are born with emotion and free will. Mankind is supposed to be able to make choices, to use their intuition to solve problems. Laws suppress these characteristics. By telling us what to do and how to act, laws effectively turn people into beings no more autonomous than programmed machines. Take Tim O’Brien in his work, “On the Rainy River”, as an example. He wanted nothing to do with the Vietnam War, and if he had a choice, he easily would have declined the draft notice. Unfortunately, the law gave him no choice, as it made the draft mandatory. It took away his free will, and coupled with the example of Creon’s unethical decree, shows that laws are not that great, and can be immoral and …show more content…
A very common excuse used is religion. Religion has long been a huge factor in people’s lives. According to Linda Alchin in “Medieval Religion”, in medieval times, the Catholic Church even trumped the government in many countries. Religion gave people a belief system, a reason to live, and a sense of comfort about death. Therefore, many people would follow religion over even government. Priests became powerful, and religion thrived. It united groups of people, separated groups of people, and even caused wars between groups of people. But arguably the most important contribution of religion is the morals it instills in mankind. They preach kindness, compassion, and helpfulness, but also to have certain views towards certain situations, one of these being same-sex marriage. According to David Masci and Michael Lipka in “Where Christian churches, other religions stand on gay marriage”, all major religions, especially the largest in the world, Catholicism, disapprove of same-sex marriage; only Presbyterians and a few smaller movements approve of it. And this perspective is reflected in each religion’s followers, too. According to Alan Blinder and Tamar Lewin in their New York Times article, “Clerk in Kentucky Chooses Jail Over Deal on Same-Sex Marriage”, on July 1, 2015, following the June 26 same-sex marriage ruling, a Kentucky