• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    So you can commit a murder and still be acquitted of it. It doesn’t mean you’re not a murderer, it just means that you weren’t convicted for the murder you committed.

    This is the dividing line for morality.

    Some people understand that the law and morality are not the same. There are illegal things that are moral. There are legal things that are immoral.

    People who think that legality = morality are dangerous, because they will interpret a loophole in the law to be a loophole in morality. The law becomes permission to do anything that fits within it, even if it is harmful to others.

    Always worth reminding these people that the Holocaust was legal, and resistance was illegal, but we still know who the good guys and the bad guys were in WWII.