**** Elections thread *****

[Keith]

did you read the original question .... which is morally worse living off benefits or smoking/selling dope. Those smoking /selling dope made the conscious decision to do so and the ensuing legal risks that they face. Those living off benefits may be doing so through no fault of their own , chronic illness , disability , redundancy etc.
As for Ongs second question , nothing morally wrong with working in a bar or living off benefits as both are legal and both can have detrimental health effects .

[JimmyS1985]

did you read the original question .... which is morally worse living off benefits or smoking/selling dope. Those smoking /selling dope made the conscious decision to do so and the ensuing legal risks that they face. Those living off benefits may be doing so through no fault of their own , chronic illness , disability , redundancy etc.
As for Ongs second question , nothing morally wrong with working in a bar or living off benefits as both are legal and both can have detrimental health effects .

Some things can be illegal and still moral. Some things can be legal, and still immoral.

For example, Anne Frank and her family hiding in the attic was illegal, but it was still moral.

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”


― Martin Luther King Jr.

"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."


- Thomas Jefferson

It is immoral to lock people up for 5 years over 5 grams of marijuana. Part of why I never felt a single ounce of shame, guilt or remorse for selling marijuana, was because the punishment was so unjustifiably cruel compared to the act itself.

I broke that 5 grams = 5 years law enough times to have racked up probably 500 years in prison for that matter.