Comment by omegaworks
12 years ago
>Depends. If it's a felony where you are, then yes.
Lawrence Kohlburg classifies this kind of reasoning at the fourth of six stages of moral development. [1] Laws are created by people - no, even worse: by committee. Do you think people who have committed no violence on others ought to be stripped of their education and opportunities?
>The upside is people in power have to obey the laws just like everyone else.
This principle is violated time and time again by people in power. Consider the recent fines imposed on HSBC for facilitating money laundering in latin america. A pittance. A slap on the wrist. The consequences for them didn't even come close to the profits they made.
1. http://brianwilliamson.id.au/cit/level1/psych1/kohlberg.pdf
>Lawrence Kohlburg classifies this kind of reasoning at the fourth of six stages of moral development.
Great. When I want Lawrence Kohlburg's opinion I'll seek it out.
>This principle is violated time and time again by people in power.
If by "time and time again" you mean "rarely, in the great scheme of things".