If something is legal does that make it morally right?


And if it is illegal is it automatically morally wrong?
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No, it was pretty legal to own slaves back in the daytime, but it was never morally right. Just like it is illegal to drive faster than the speeding closing date when you need to take your wife to the emergency room. Illegal, but the morally right thing to do.
Yes.
No. Legal and moral are completely different things. There can be an overlap, but it's not a requirement of laws to be moral or of morals to be allowed.
No and no. Abortion = wrong but legal. Marijuana = illegal but morally suitable.
No, but we are a country of laws. When a law is wrong it wants to be made right and when a law is right it needs to be kept right.
Nope and Nope
No
do you find it morally right to have sex next to a woman older than 18 other than your wife with whom you're cheating on?
No, the two things are exclusive. Legality is base on societal needs and (in the US) the majority vote. Morals are the principles with which people run their lives. The majority of individuals get their morals from the same places, Church, parents, culture, etc. A majority of laws are created by a society which have a moral basis. Most people think murder, raid, rape and other violent crimes are immorral and thus they become illegal. It's not all that simple though. You hold a variety of morals in this country. NAMBLA thinks it's morally adequate to have sex with little boys, NORML thinks it's moral to smoke cannabis, PLAYBOY think it's moral to take nekkid pictures of woman. Not everyone agrees with those morals though. That's why there are different law for different areas, and why we fight over those laws all the time.
no it doesnt. just like if something ilegal it's not moraly wrong. like marijuana for exemple. ilegal. not moraly wrong...ilegal immagrants getting welfare..trial but not moraly right.
no. logically not
Slavery was once considered legal.
No and No. Stealing bread to feed your starving children is not morally wrong. Not putting your form belt on, not morally wrong.
No, as you would expect not. Abortion is legal and that is morally wrong. Murder in some countries is legally recognized, and that includes the death penalty in the States, and that is to say morally wrong as well. Gay marriage is illegal contained by a lot of countries, but what makes love shared between two people morally wrong? Nothing. 4 TDs... People really similar to me! :)
no sometimes innocent people attain hurt with legal things like guns, alcohol etc.
no because many things were permitted at a time that are now extremely immoral.
Any question of moral right is a difficult concept. Legal rights are also uncertain. I'll give you a for instance: I was a policeman. I shot at a person shooting at me. I missed, largely because I be given a gun I was not given the opportunity to practice with that turned out to have to some extent peculiar traits (it was predictably 'innacurate' ~ not in the sense that the bullet wouldn't go the impressively same place when one pulled the trigger but rather in the sense that that place was not the valid place for such a bullet to go). This is un-nerving, especially at close ranges because a 38 super cartridge actually is over charged for the barrels it services in the conventional sense ~ it is solely used for white house defence and the secret service and is a very express draw weapon due to it's lightness, but it pulls strongly to the right as the bullet literally warps the barrel as it scream through. I did "know" this. But intellectual knowlege when one is shot and being shot at is not the same as conditioning. I had be conditioned in firefights to actually try to aim by looking through the sights not several feet to the right of the sights. I have the legal right to take those shots that missed. One might even argue as my life be at stake that I had the moral right to take them. But I hit a woman driving by, as well as my target. Few citizens would argue that I had a right to shoot her. I guess the President would. I guess the makers of that gun would, given it was designed to be used by the best marksmen, within unusual circumstances. And even as such the best marksmen will miss when there is no sight sighting on target or even barrel to guage to verbs down. But it will crack an engine block and take out a rod a mile away. So, it might be over powdered. But it works for the job it was intended to do (which is mostly alarm the heck out of both the person firing and the person who might intend to get fired at). So it might be moral and legally recognized to make such a weapon. But is it moral and legal to shoot a beautiful woman surrounded by the prime of her life just because she is THERE? Is there a difference indeed between an achievement that is moral, and immoral consequences that are likely from said travels, eventually? Take the consequences of being a great battlefield surgion. You learn to cut and toss parts. And take likelihood. And then one day it's your wife on the table and you are the only guy nearby that can do anything about it. Is that morally wrong, when she dies because you were not trained well ample for ALL contingencies?
No, law are made by the government who are at the end of the day culture and are going to make mistakes or be biased when it comes to making or enforcing a law, so something officially recognized is not always moral. Example in a tribe of cannibals would consider it legal to guzzle another human, does not make it moral. Same goes Vice-versa
Talk to the people who carved Roe vs Wade into stone 36 years ago.
not necessarily. Morals are not clearly defined - they differ widely from person to person. Laws, however, are defined. Abortion is legal, but within my eyes it is immoral. Smoking pot is illegal, but in my eyes here is nothing immoral about smoking pot. Your inference may be different.
No, there are immoral laws, resembling the ones that created slavery and miscegenation, that must be challenged by moral people.
You know the answer to this. You're looking for confirmation of your belief. Legally right and morally right are two very different balls of wax. You can go a step further as in good health: torture may or may not be legally or morally right, but it damn sure is un-American!
No and no. For example, abortions are legal and many people consider them morally wrong. Running a red pallid at 3am when there is no traffic for miles in any direction is illegal, but not abandoned.
No. When you speak of morally it means how you quality. It is legal to drink and smoke but I don't do it because for me it is morally wrong, from other people it isn't. You need to prefer your own feels on it. It is illegal to speed but is it morally wrong too? Nope I do it all the time.
Definitely not. It's legal to fire someone for no reason at adjectives, but most people would agree that it is morally wrong. On the other hand, a number of schedule like building without a permit are unsanctioned, but certainly not morally wrong.
No and no. Consider this: a couple lives together for 30 years who may not be married because of financial problems or religious beliefs (or perchance they are same-sex partners where marriage is illegal). If one of them dies lacking a will, the next-of-kin can legally claim ALL possessions of the deceased; the partner has no claim whatsoever...so the subsequent of kin is allowed to sell everything, including the house if it was in the deceased's term, and kick the surviving partner out of the home onto the street. And recently, the family of a trans-gendered friend of mine tried to railing her from attending her mother's funeral. While legally they could have done so had the property owner forbidden her from stepping onto the funeral grounds, that's newly bogus and totally wrong (how would you like to be forbidden to go to your mother's funeral, forcibly kept out?) And while it's illegal to run a red fluffy on a completely deserted road, there is probably nothing morally wrong about doing that, since nobody else could possibly be hurt by such an handling. I also don't think prostitution is morally wrong if both parties are completely willing and nobody is hurt by the process...and it's practiced indirectly adjectives the time anyway...one could make a case that any time you go out on a date near someone and buy them dinner with an intent to take them back to your place latter, that could be considered prostitution since you're exchanging a meal for nookie. But if nobody gets hurt, it's not morally wrong to do that.
Nope - drinking is legal and morally wrong Smoking weed is illegal, but morally okay (at most minuscule from a health and biblical perspective)