When Does The Law Make Good Sense?

The police officer is facing the issue on whether right in this case meaning the law makes good sense. It is important that when thinking of doing the right thing we aren’t always talking in unison about the legal and moral acts. The two acts aren’t always in perfect harmony and in this situation we have a good example of a moral code violating a legal code. In the moral sense the right thing to do would be to let the couple go and supply the Villages with cancer patients with access to the Laetrile pills. In doing so the officer has let people receive the pills they need in order to fight their cancer. It is important that we realize that when faced with a situation similar to the police officers the decision we make it is not black and white. …show more content…
A law is not inclusive of all the moral concerns that are present. An example of this would be the Nuremberg laws, which were “enacted by the Nazi German government which deprived persons classified as Jews of German citizenship and basic rights belonging to citizens” (Williams, 2012, pg. 10). Another example would be the laws allowing slavery during the early stages of the United States and the police officers were expected to uphold those laws regardless of their personal