There is a significant difference between social norms and human morals, that some people may not recognize. With social norms in our society, that society being The United States, we have questionless behaviors in which we conduct ourselves. Those acceptable actions are things such as, shaking someone’s hand when you first meet them or holding the door open for the person behind you. These established attitudes we have are identical in some places and contrasting in others, however, in this society they are accepted and practiced everyday. Now, human morals clash heavily with these traditional practices. The morals of humans are lessons, and things that over time and over living life, that have educated us to differentiate right from wrong.
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Through human evolution there are certain things we are born knowing and things we know not to do. In Spite of those inherited skills, we still have things we need to learn, things that keep the law in order around the community. So knowing that Positive law is the one that helps obtain that, and natural law helps as much it can depending on how much we have experienced and just know, the cohesively keep the community together. But let’s take natural law for a second, and see how the U.S legal system is influenced by natural law. Natural law is morals, things we inherently know are right or wrong. In the U.S. it is illegal to murder another human being, and it is punishable by death in many places. I know this you know this, every person in the world knows this is illegal and un-moral. Yet, people still commit these crimes, so without the way of natural law we would have no defense system against it. Our constitution and laws were written with a sense of universal knowing, universal right or wrong, a universal set of …show more content…
A right to the American people is a set of givens, we are allowed these things, such as our constitutional rights. Within the constitution those rights that we are given are non admissible, we can not be charged or wrongfully prosecuted, because we reserve those rights in that constitution. Now a liberty, much like the rights we get. It only differs in that the authority upon us can not restrict us from our choice of religion, behaviors or views. Our free nation would not be what it is if it were not for these rights that were drafted hundreds of years ago, we owe it to
Through human evolution there are certain things we are born knowing and things we know not to do. In Spite of those inherited skills, we still have things we need to learn, things that keep the law in order around the community. So knowing that Positive law is the one that helps obtain that, and natural law helps as much it can depending on how much we have experienced and just know, the cohesively keep the community together. But let’s take natural law for a second, and see how the U.S legal system is influenced by natural law. Natural law is morals, things we inherently know are right or wrong. In the U.S. it is illegal to murder another human being, and it is punishable by death in many places. I know this you know this, every person in the world knows this is illegal and un-moral. Yet, people still commit these crimes, so without the way of natural law we would have no defense system against it. Our constitution and laws were written with a sense of universal knowing, universal right or wrong, a universal set of …show more content…
A right to the American people is a set of givens, we are allowed these things, such as our constitutional rights. Within the constitution those rights that we are given are non admissible, we can not be charged or wrongfully prosecuted, because we reserve those rights in that constitution. Now a liberty, much like the rights we get. It only differs in that the authority upon us can not restrict us from our choice of religion, behaviors or views. Our free nation would not be what it is if it were not for these rights that were drafted hundreds of years ago, we owe it to