I understand where you're coming from on that one.
It maybe sounds a bit pretentious to say that there is a higher law than whatever happens to be the current law of the land. I think it is true though. If you sign up for the police force in good faith, what happens if successive governments pass more and more brutally repressive laws, culminating in orders to round up all the Jews, for example? At which point is it not OK to say 'I don't like what I'm being asked to do, and I reserve the right not to do it'?
There is no moral obligation to obey unjust laws. I'm not saying that this principle applies in the OP's particular case, of which I don't know the facts. Just asserting the principle, that's all :)
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Date: 2006-10-05 10:09 pm (UTC)It maybe sounds a bit pretentious to say that there is a higher law than whatever happens to be the current law of the land. I think it is true though. If you sign up for the police force in good faith, what happens if successive governments pass more and more brutally repressive laws, culminating in orders to round up all the Jews, for example? At which point is it not OK to say 'I don't like what I'm being asked to do, and I reserve the right not to do it'?
There is no moral obligation to obey unjust laws. I'm not saying that this principle applies in the OP's particular case, of which I don't know the facts. Just asserting the principle, that's all :)