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Is morality a higher authority than the law?

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Is morality a higher authority than the law?

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Rationally there is nothing higher than morality but realistically this is not the case in this world. The world order does not work solely based on morality because human weaknesses dominate here. The same thing goes with the law. The laws are made by people like you and me and whatever we do has our biases and prejudices so much embedded in it. Practically the laws should have a mandatory part based on human morality. But there is no gurantee who follows laws and make them happen that they are going to follow some kind of morality. The morality is a practice and the law is a liability. The laws are made and executed but they are always broken. If we are doing something just out of the fear of not breaking a law then we are dishonest. But if we are not engaging in a sin because it is against any morality then this is real honesty. Doing something out of liability or not doing something illegal out of fear of law and punishment then it is a dishonesty. But not doing something or engagi

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