Saturday, July 7, 2018

A case for doing what other people think is legal



Free agency with a gun in the room?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rN_LTji9yg


You do not need to obey any laws recognized by any of the states agreed to exist by the United Nations as they are all legal fictions.  However other people believe in the legitimacy of such laws and will use violence against you if they perceive you as breaking such laws and will view you as a bad person reducing your opportunity for them to listen to you if they think you are a criminal. So I would suggest doing what other people think is legal in front of them even though there is no objective legality because of so many contradictions in legislation.  With the exception that when doing what other people perceive as legal goes against your conscience you should disobey.  But for me personally it often does not go against my conscience to do something I would normally consider unethical to reduce the chance that someone else would do a greater harm than the harm caused by doing what I would normally consider to be unethical in the absence of the threat of harm.  It is important to have an informed conscience so you do not do something you would consider unethical if your conscience was more informed.  Now as for those psychopaths and sociopaths who  do not view  harming other people as morally wrong for them to do or do not care about what is moral they should consider the possibility that harming other people might have undesirable consequences for them in the long run.

Copyright Carl Janssen 2018 July 7


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