Today with so many different cultures and views of society there is a definite different standards of morality. Originally the first laws came about with the Code of Hammurabi which basically stated an eye for and eye. Today we still practice this with the death penalty. Although some would argue this is not just. Is it morally right to murder a murderer? In some states they say yes in others they say no. Another example of morality would be to argue is spanking kid’s abuse. So much research has been backed supporting each opposition. According to the law spanking is not morally wrong unless you go too far by leaving marks. With each right and wrong there is always a fine line that makes one line too far.
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She was convicted of murdering her father Tom Lannert after he had been sexually molesting her since she was 8 years old. One who sexually molest their kids is morally wrong and deserves to be punished but what if society makes a mistake and never steps in. Due to the repeated violent attacks Stacy will never be able to have kids and suffers with a lifetime of PTSD. How someone who is the victim in this situation does a life sentence and forced to live in prison considered morally just? Thankfully the law stepped in after 18 years and let Stacy go free. Too often we hear of cases where the victim is sentenced after taking the law into their own hands. One of the biggest issues I see today is human trafficking. According to Polaris Project there are 20.9 million victims of human trafficking globally. So many children are charged with prostitution only forced into it for survival. FACT SHEET: SEX TRAFFICKING et al., states “Sex trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years. Enactment of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) made sex trafficking a serious violation of Federal law” (2012, para. 1). Until the year 2000 sex trafficking was not even considered a serious
The existing criminal law does …show more content…
She was convicted of murdering her father Tom Lannert after he had been sexually molesting her since she was 8 years old. One who sexually molest their kids is morally wrong and deserves to be punished but what if society makes a mistake and never steps in. Due to the repeated violent attacks Stacy will never be able to have kids and suffers with a lifetime of PTSD. How someone who is the victim in this situation does a life sentence and forced to live in prison considered morally just? Thankfully the law stepped in after 18 years and let Stacy go free. Too often we hear of cases where the victim is sentenced after taking the law into their own hands. One of the biggest issues I see today is human trafficking. According to Polaris Project there are 20.9 million victims of human trafficking globally. So many children are charged with prostitution only forced into it for survival. FACT SHEET: SEX TRAFFICKING et al., states “Sex trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years. Enactment of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) made sex trafficking a serious violation of Federal law” (2012, para. 1). Until the year 2000 sex trafficking was not even considered a serious