Is morality in any way related to legality?
Are they complimentary?
Or, do they have nothing to do with each other?
Your take?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Laws are there for society. In a way, most laws are social morality. Some are not.
Family law (laws created and regulated within a family) also has much to do with morality but sometimes there is a grey area.
Individual laws, those we make to self-govern ourselves can be influenced by social and family law but have a higher degree of personal morality than social or family laws.
Legality is a social concept associated with socially driven laws. Laws which were usually created/instituted by social morality.
Sometimes social morality overrides family or individual morality. Social morality and law can and does affect families and personal behavior. In those cases, social legality prevents family or personal morality from correcting injustice in the eyes of family or personal morality.
Sometimes social legality has nothing to do with morality. One example like imminent domain is not a morality issue but it is a legal issue.
Edited by
Tom4Uhere
on Mon 11/29/21 05:53 PM