On law and morality
Laws are rules created and recognised by the state, or the society, which regulate the behaviour of individuals by imposition of penalties for their violation. They exist as legal laws, social norms, organisational ethics, etc. When we are younger, we tend to see law as guide to morality. We equate legal with moral and illegal with immoral. As we mature and our interactions with the law increase in various domains of finance, work, marriage, etc., we observe another side of laws as inflexible entanglements which lack gradation, consideration, empathy. To meet our objectives, we figure out our workarounds, the choice of which depend on resources we can afford to expend. We weigh our options and process the guilt, the conflict that arise from the sudden negation of our long held childhood belief of "legal is moral". As we process our conflicting values, we gradually reach a broader understanding of laws and their utility. Laws began as instruments of social control, that fixed ...