peace
So.
In the interest of discussing something on which others may comment:
What do you do when faced with a situation where what you would choose to do is neither immoral nor inethical, but illegal?
But you know it's right?
Like, in Cincinnati, where I craftily made my escape from *ahem* grew up, it's illegal to feed other people's meters when you see they're about to go out/have gone out/the person is 'bout 3 cars from getting a ticket.
There's this one granny who used to go around with a bag full of quarters saving peoples' backsides, not knowing that it was illegal- and then when one parking officer with nothing better to do saw her and informed her that indeed that was unlawful, she didn't care. As I recall (too lazy to google it) she did end up in jail over that mess.
Or how about (dun dun dunnnnnnn) the topic of the moment: multiple wives? I haven't heard so much commentary from the Muslim side of things as I have the pseudo/Mormon side of things. But I was just thinking about making the choice to live in a situation like that, and making the normally-unnecessary distinction between my religious compass and the civic-legal compass.
I mean, I believe what I believe, but, um, I even tryna be a lawbreaker here.
And then, too, the law can be "a ass".
And then, too, I ain't going to jail for anything less than a true conviction (either meaning of conviction).
My mama used to say that I could do whatever I wanted as long as it wasn't immoral, illegal, or inethical. Today I found myself going back to the basics: the 'voice inside my head' ticking off the 3 criteria. And got pulled up short. Whaddaya do with something like that???
It's something I need to think about theoretically, before I ever get to the level of needing to apply that in real life.
Anyone got some experience?
Discuss amongst yourselves.
peace
TwennyTwo
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well it seems that a lot of the illegal stuff can be downright contradicting with either the majority of the population's belief's
ReplyDeleteone example of this is in egypt where currency exchange was considered illegal at some point (not considered haram by islamic beliefs, while buying alcohol was completely legal even though it's haram)
if trading in currencies or filling up parking meters are considered illegal then i'm an outlaw ( some rules are quite stupid anyway ) i would always choose illegal over immoral (except if the penalty is severe/high possibility of getting caught)
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