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 Author Michael G. Merhige Says the Law Should Not Be Society’s Principal Moral Instrument in Thoughtful Pauses- Author Michael G. Merhige Says the Law Should Not Be Society’s Principal Moral Instrument in Thoughtful Pauses
- May 16, 2019
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Former military and CIA officer claims society is at risk when the law exclusively determines right and wrong.
MIAMI – When the law solely itself, and not convention or one’s moral compass, determines what is right or wrong, Michael G. Merhige fears the risks become inherent. Thereafter, whatever the powers choose to define is legal, society is left only to accept. What results is that the law allows one to break many of the rules society finds unacceptable, behooving “the governed to understand that legal is not always right nor right always legal.”
Instead, in Thoughtful Pauses, Merhige argues that ...
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