To provide you, our dearest reader, with a bit of cohesive-ness, the Unedited Team has not only pledged to cough up some nice disputable topics for you to mull over, but also a bit of pop-culture in the form of music (and in this post's case - movies!). And so I'll start this blog off with a bang - or rather with something a bit softer (okay! Bad, I know...), as my current song obsession comes in the form of Radiohead's "High and Dry" from The Bends, and also "15 steps" from their newest album called In Rainbows. While I fully understand that "High and Dry" is most likely talking about someone getting, well, high - the cool thing about these two songs is that, unlike a lot of Radiohead's stuff, they both have a substantial beat. Weird? Well, okay, not very. Beats are pretty normal I guess. But breathe a sigh of relief - today's blog isn't about the fixes in my brain, but rather about law and morals and which one should take precedence over the other.
This idea actually came about when I was watching Gone Baby Gone with my sister today - awesome, by the way - where (without ruining the movie) the controversy of breaking the law for good came up. Without bringing up euthanasia and the death penalty, the question still exists: is it okay to break the law if your morals are 100% true? Is it "okay" to kidnap a child from abusive parents? Is it okay for us to commit murder, if we are murdering rapists and child molesters? There are a hundred variables in this of course, as always. How can you tell your morals are straight? Who says what is morally sound? Can you make choices for other people?
What do you think?
Always,
Rosy
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I think it more or less depends on the situation. Double standards to exist, and maybe for the better.
(Also, nice to see other youth-y people blogging. I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE.
Regards,
Big S)
I think that in rare instances Moral values can take the place of the law. Not with Murder or anything crazy like that. No one person has the right to decided whether another may live or die. But the the law is not a perfect structure. It was developed by man to serve the people in general. But it does not give specific solutions to specific problems. There are many loopholes in the judicial system where often innocent men are charged, are guilty men walk free. A common example of people acting against the system as portrayed by the media would be insubordination in the military. Now without the Million$ hollywood script and all that other junk involved, put yourself in the position where your commanding officer has asked you to carryout an order which you cannot morally justify. This becomes a critical moment where you are either forced to comply and carry out the seed of evil or be court Marshaled. I would be more than Justified if the right instance were to present itself where I had to perform illegal actions in order to fulfill a higher purpose. After a great deal of consideration, and taking into the fact that once the transgressions has been done, you are now fully subject to the law and the mercy of the jury. (Also good to keep in mind that going to your local Godfather of Organized crime is not an Advisable solution. Regardless of circumstance)
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