Ethics and the law are not necessarily in sync / by kevin murray

The law as mankind knows it, should be based on universal ethics that apply fairly to all people, and should be done in a manner which is consistent as well as being knowable for those people.  For instance, mankind insists that far too often that those that break mankind's laws are bad people, and typically are labeled thereby as criminals; yet, there are all sorts of laws passed into existence, that are arbitrary in nature, are unfair in their application, and are not consistent with good ethics.  So that, in accordance to those that write and implement such laws, those people that are disobedient to such, are punished; even though, laws are subject to change, even on the most fundamental of levels, and even though not ever law is actually a good or a fair law.

 

In point of fact, as mankind gets more modern, it has a strong tendency to add more rules and regulations to its legal code, and never to subtract from such.  The reason that this is so is myriad, but the primary reason is that those that are the legislators, or the entities that influence those legislators, often have a vested interest in seeing that certain laws are passed in order to protect their interests, which often serves to harm those that they fear would infringe on what they already have or want.  That is to say, laws passed such as the "right-to-work" law are even worded in a way, that seems to be something that everybody would be in favor of; but are in reality, a façade, in which that law has been written for the expressed purpose to make it far more difficult for a given employee to unionize, or to have a firm assurance that they will be secure in their employment.

 

Each of us has a duty not so much to obey the law, but rather to be in adherence to good ethics that may or may not be consistent with the law as practiced.  After all, laws are typically written and legislated by the ruling class, or the powers-to-be of a given government,  and therefore do not readily conform to the fair execution of laws on behalf of the people, in whole; and especially on behalf of those that lack monetary resources, political connections, and champions for their cause.  In virtually every case in which a law is unequally applied, it can be stated as a truism, that such a law as that is also unethical as practiced. 

 

Those governments that have a higher consistency between the laws so propagated upon the people, in relationship to good sound ethics, are the type of government that is most beneficial for the people; whereas, those governments that are most arbitrary in their law and the execution of that law are the most tyrannical and are a pox upon the people.   Unfortunately, the real reason why modern societies have passed so many additional laws that have little or nothing to do with sound ethics, of which no one person or entity has a true comprehension or knowledge of all of those laws, is to lay more traps to catch those that they should desire to catch in those traps, so that the government thereby has the power to control that population, never seeming to realize that injustice in all of its many forms, will not produce a harmonious or peaceful society, but rather a divisive and alienated one.