Suppose You find a loophole in legal law (whatever that means), and commit an act which is considered morally wrong,but in such a way that it is acc. to law.
Now the country court finds the loophole, and changes the law in such a way that the loophole is taken care off, and acc. to new law the act committed by you was illegal.
Now you are caught by the police. In the court hearing you are asked to confess,if you dont confess and found guilty you will be heavily punished,and if you confess you might be pardoned to some unknown extent.
Will you confess?
and in any case Is the court wrong in punishing you?
9 comments:
Ill confess and tell the date of the crime...
And court is morally right but legally not...
I can get away saying that when i did the act, i was nowhere wrong (morally maybe, but then who is the court to ask me about my morals)
-K
And, do tell us what would you do.
-K
how does it matter ?
will skip the court prosecution session itself !
go on the run !
or may be now do the actual crime for, if you have to be jailed why not do an actual crime under new law !
isn't this the case of binayak sen ,what you are mentioning?
Actually...hehe..dont curse me..I wrote this thinking about my grade in CSL 201 going down from A- to C-.
You would argue that mine wasnt exactly a loophole,but it was.(I never lied to the TA about my algo,its just that he didnt ask for it).
@Divyam:Dude I should had done that.
@Kshitij:Typical kshitij response.
@ Bhatta: I am unaware of the Binayak sen case.
and your response reflects why you are unique and "ajeeb".
(For those who dont know, I didnt follow the algorithm required , and didnt tell the TA about it. The TA didnt ask.Anyways, I faulted when I didnt confess it in the major exam.and instead of about 9/20 in assignments which I was earlier getting,I got -10/20.)
whatever you are more ajeeb than me !!!
and for those who don't know his csl case , he got minus 10 not 10 ;don't confuse as he has written.
And as you say, whatever happened was fair; everyone got what they deserved... if you criticize it, you are doing just to reduce your insecurity
may be you deserved C- (you were a controversial case throughout semester in the wing anyway)
To what extent I am pardoned will decide whether I confess or not.
Anyway, I think it would be difficult to find something which is considered morally wrong but not punishable by law.
This time I would like to give a better outlook into this matter:
The rules are made so that we don't mess up situations. It is our natural duty to prevent complicating things. So therefore, you are wrong in the first place to find for loopholes and misuse them, you don't have to perpetrate actions just because they are not laws..
Thats what I meant by "morally wrong"!
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