[Foundation-l] Let's switch to CC-BY-SA

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> Who is trolling here ? Slavery was legal and immoral. My question was about
>> things that were illegal.
>>     
> The distinction is irrelevant, you can reverse it pretty easily: Since
> slavery was legal, rescuing someone else's slave and freeing them (a
> moral act) was illegal (it's theft, basically).
>   
Hmmm!  Just like taking someone's intellectual property and freeing it. ;-)
> Of course, morality is an entirely subjective concept. At the time,
> slavery was generally considered moral, since the people being
> enslaved were considered lesser beings. It was when those morals
> changed that people started to call for abolition. The law generally
> follows morals, but lags behind a little. During the gap between
> morals changing and the law catching up you can have immoral laws.
The law doesn't necessarily follow morality; it often reflects the 
self-interest of those in power.

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