tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post3182207571290981775..comments2024-01-25T14:51:13.377-05:00Comments on Gamso - For the Defense: Ethics v. Morals, IVJeff Gamsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09869425697771419546noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-18757800355219224182009-08-12T00:05:52.425-04:002009-08-12T00:05:52.425-04:00I will grant you that not everything that is immor...I will grant you that not everything that is immoral should be illegal and certainly some things that are legal are immoral. But the introduction of alcohol into the system of an infant through the mother's body is certainly something that should be criminalized,at least in certain instances. As with everything we read in the paper I would imagine that there is quite a backstory with this mother. It probably wasn't an instance where an otherwise stellar mother absentmindedly drank a glass of chardonnay an hour before she suckled the infant.american scold IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15777481042092172873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-83126911014988706672009-08-09T22:49:41.555-04:002009-08-09T22:49:41.555-04:00If you believe that morality is determined solely ...If you believe that morality is determined solely by a deity, and if you believe that the law channels the deity's wishes (a variation on the divine right of kings), then yeah, it follows.<br /><br />On a more earthbound (and less theologically grounded) basis, if you believe in the law itself as a value, as my father did, for instance, then it may follow (it did for my father) that there's something fundamentally wrong with violating the law. Hence, that which is illegal is immoral not on its own terms, not because there's a perfect match between criminality and immorality, but because violating the law is, per se, immoral.Jeff Gamsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09869425697771419546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-46486905391438265822009-08-09T21:37:16.926-04:002009-08-09T21:37:16.926-04:00An interesting question, related to that of whethe...An interesting question, related to that of whether everything immoral should be illegal, is whether everything illegal is immoral. At "Seeking Justice", an anonymous blogger—more familiar with both grammar and logic than your Scold—argues that it is.Mark Bennetthttp://www.bennettandbennett.com/blognoreply@blogger.com