If conflict arise between the law of state and law of conscience which one prevail?
please .. help me to answer this .. its a survey question. . . .
tough one but I would say doing the right thing is always the way to go
and there may be a time when not following the letter of the law so to speak is the right thing.. so
... I say when a conflict arises and you have a conscience follow your conscience.
unlike a sociopath, who may follow the law, because he/she has no conscience.
I digress because this question intrigues me
. I think sometimes the law of man is best. the courts / government and police are a mess.
Lets put it this way, you can go to jail knowing that you didn't compromise your values. State law will prevail.
Answer:
interesting one...state law may prevail in the short-term, but if it's to prevail in the long-term then it needs to change the conscience of the people it's ruling. Given that (what I'm assuming you mean by) the law of conscience is something that has come about because it's good for people in general, I think that if a law isn't good for the majority of people (and therefore is against the law of conscience) in the long-term it will be overturned. Look at the feudal regimes, look at nazi germany, look at communism in the ussr.
So I would say
short-term: the law of state
long-term: the law of conscience.
The law of state nearly always prevails. Even in many of the cases that many people may use as examples, the law of state makes exceptions for a person's conscience.
The law of state would prevail now. It wasn't always this way: look at the founding fathers.
It depends upon which Court you take it to.
