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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: The law and ethics author: Mohit Agarwal -date: August 2021 +date: September 2021 bibliography: ["reference.bib"] link-citations: true csl: http://www.zotero.org/styles/apa @@ -10,4 +10,19 @@ nocite: '@*' --- <!-- *y --> +One might hope that the law and ethics are significantly linked. +Criminal law might be seen as serving to ensure that unethical +activities are discouraged and punished. By arresting people for a +crime that we see as unethical we can deliver justified punishment, +make offenders account for criminal activity and in some cases protect +the community from those people and to 'repay' something to society or +the community. [@sep-criminal-law] + + +Prevent wrongdoing +prohibition: alcohol, and then drugs + +In reality law and ethics, although presented to have some connection +are deeply disconnected in our societies. + # References and bibliography @@ -22,5 +22,25 @@ Community: Preventing wrongdoing: potentially flawed. Reference prohibition. ## How much law is there -- find source -- anarchist handbook: ? + But the question of time is not the only difficulty. If you demand my + assent to any proposition, it is necessary that the proposition should be + stated simply and clearly. So numerous are the varieties of human + understanding, in all cases where its independence and integrity are + sufficiently preserved, that there is little chance of any two men coming + to a precise agreement, about ten successive propositions that are in their + own nature open to debate. What then can be more absurd, than to + present to me the laws of England in fifty volumes folio, and call upon + me to give an honest and uninfluenced vote upon their contents? + + But the social contract, considered as the foundation of civil + government, requires of me more than this. I am not only obliged to + consent to all the laws that are actually upon record, but to all the laws + that shall hereafter be made. It was under this view of the subject that + Rousseau, in tracing the consequences of the social contract, was led to + assert that “the great body of the people in whom the sovereign + authority resides can neither delegate nor resign it. The essence of that + authority,” he adds, “is the general will; and will cannot be represented. + It must either be the same or another; there is no alternative. The + deputies of the people cannot be its representatives; they are merely its + attorneys. The laws which the community does not ratify in person, are + no laws, are nullities.”[iii] diff --git a/reference.bib b/reference.bib index 942f50a..4151779 100644 --- a/reference.bib +++ b/reference.bib @@ -16,3 +16,12 @@ edition = {{F}all 2021}, publisher = {Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University} } +@InCollection{england-wales-crime, + title = "Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables", + author = "Meghan Elkin", + year = "2021", + journal = "Office for National Statistics", + edition = "Year ending March 2021", + url = "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables" +} + |