Is There A Moral Obligation To The Law

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The idea that there is a moral obligation to the law has been an idea that’s been misinterpreted. The only reason why we feel as if this is true is because since we morally interpret the law, then we feel we should naturally have a moral obligation to obey it. If we didn’t have that moral obligation then we would, as some would think, betray ourselves and the very people to whom we entrusted to bring about peace in our everyday lives. But who’s to say that those people are to be trusted in formulating The Law, no one can say. How are we to know that those people are capable of producing a set of laws that we can morally obey and feel comfortable doing so.
Laws have been fought against since the beginning of time, for example: as abolitionists aided runaway slaves before the American Civil War. Slavery was very much accepted back in those days, but if you aided a runaway slave then you were to serve the consequences of the law. Now can you sit there and tell me that it was morally wrong to do this and to morally disobey the law? Of course not, we’ve been fighting against slavery for years, and the law had always made it legal, thank god slavery today is non-existent. Another issue that our society today has faced is the levelness of abortion. Should it or should not be permissible in our society. This has been a big controversy till today, some states have made it legal and have gotten rid of the idea because it is so controversial just because no one can figure out the morality of the issue.
How does the receiving of benefits give rise to a responsibility to reciprocate? If I were to give you a present for no apparent reason at all without your knowledge, would you have an obligation to do the same? The answer to this would have to no. Why
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should you? You didn’t ask for it and didn’t tell that person to get it for you. Why should the awarding of benefits justify an obligation of gratitu...