Is it wrong to judge how people behaved in the past based on today's morals?

Is it wrong to judge how people behaved in the past based on today's morals? Jul 17, 2018 12:34:54 GMT via mobile

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Post by Lugh on Jul 17, 2018 12:34:54 GMT

Jul 17, 2018 10:32:45 GMT FilmFlaneur said:

Jul 16, 2018 15:44:44 GMT Lugh said:

[The law is completely irrelevant, there's no moral obligation for you to obey the law] because what a piece of paper says is completely irrelevant.

Is this a special rule, or 'law' of your own that I see written down here? By your own yardstick then it might be irrelevant. In any case, it still begs the question.

I find it really amusing that as an atheist you would look to a piece of paper for moral guidance, remind you of anyone on this board?

You did not specify religious law, just 'the law' my friend, if this is what you mean. So enlighten this atheist: are you here really saying that even secular law is irrelevant enough to be ignored, or is it just religious 'do's and don'ts', as in the commandments? Is it any law which has a mirror in religious writing? Or is it just any written laws per se? And what, then, ought laws be replaced with? Chinese Whispers?

By this logic the french had no right to fight against the german imposed regime during WW2, it would be wrong to protest if protesting was made illegal etc

A peculiar example, and I don't see what this has to do with the notion that laws can be ignored generally without moral penalty, which ultimately is what you are suggesting - and without due logical reason, so far. (This of course does not mean that every law is to be obeyed no matter what, of course, as the Founding Fathers and others demonstrated, but even then they eventually came up with one of the best known and greatest legal codes we have.) But if you really say all laws are irrelevant, presumably this means for you child abuse, murder, and rape etc are not to be considered crimes at all, as their legal proscription is meaningless. So what are they then? Just ... hobbies?

No law, whether religious are secular is to be taken into account, no matter the decision.

If you're allowed to break the law in certain circumstances why not others?

It's just funny that you criticise Christians for looking to the bible for moral guidance, when you do the same, just with the legal system. Another amusing thing is that just like Christians, you pick and choose from the bible, you conveniently ignore the bible when it suits you. The sole difference being your bible is legal system.