Nov 4 2012: Legality may be seen as morality contextually generalized. The ethics that must be accepted within a society in order to maintain its value ideals are laws.
So breaking a law is seemingly unethical. But when authorities go on to make laws, the situation becomes complex and even paradoxical enough to go against the societies moral values. In such cases breaking a law is necessarily an ethical act.
In Gandhiji's case, it may be seen that the law and morality corresponds to different social orders and hence the conflict is obvious.
Hence there is nothing wrong for an issue to be equally legal and ethical. Corruption, I think, belongs to such group.
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So breaking a law is seemingly unethical. But when authorities go on to make laws, the situation becomes complex and even paradoxical enough to go against the societies moral values. In such cases breaking a law is necessarily an ethical act.
In Gandhiji's case, it may be seen that the law and morality corresponds to different social orders and hence the conflict is obvious.
Hence there is nothing wrong for an issue to be equally legal and ethical. Corruption, I think, belongs to such group.