Daddy - what does illegal mean?
This is an embellishment, but not too far from a conversation I had with my daughter while walking back from school a few years back.
Daddy, what does illegal mean?
My beautiful girl, illegal means -
something the government can do, but you cannot do
It is illegal to print money, but the government can print money
It is illegal to steal, but the government steals
It is illegal to kill, but the government kills
It is illegal to earn money without giving some to the government, the government doesn’t earn money and give you some
It is illegal to hold someone against their will, but the government can hold someone against their will
It is illegal to sell drugs, but the government has sold drugs
It is illegal to drive without permission from the government
It is illegal to travel in/out of a country without a passport
A different interaction with my daughter - no embellishment.
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Cute. Detailed explanation?
Morals are decided by communities. Humans live in many communities at once, each of which are constantly changing. Humans enter and leave many communities in their lifetimes, from friends and family to work, corporate, government, leisure, and other communities. Each community defines their moral behaviors for admission to or exclusion from, or punishment by the community.
Communities are layers and fractal. They are not even internally consistent.
Laws are morals created by legal government communities, written down and enforced by those communities, which create bureaucracies, bureaucratic communities, to interpret and enforce them. The legal community might be civic, state, country, or international. Different communities have different also layered, bureaucracies to interpret and enforce their laws, with international communities having the weakest bureaucracies, followed by civic, state, and country bureaucracies being most powerful. Morals are general guidelines and the morality of a specific action or inaction, is decided by a community on a case by case basis. Laws are also general guidelines, although being written they are more specifically defined, legality is decided on a case by case basis.
Clear as mud?