Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 366 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Legality Defense
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The idea
The legality defense — "it is the law" — offers a fact where a justification was owed; legality describes a rule's status, never settles its justice.
In practice
Every unjust statute in history was, at the time, the law. The sentence that defends everything defends nothing in particular.
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