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Appeal to the law

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A set of clackers, a toy which is illegal in the United States but not immoral.

An appeal to the law (argumentum ad legem in Latin) is an informal fallacy in which someone tries to encourage or defend an action based on its legality, or condemn it as morally reprehensible, purely because it is illegal.[1] This line of reasoning is faulty because although the law of the land is important, it does not necessarily match up with the morality or sensibility of an action.[2][3][4] In reality, many statutorily forbidden acts are malum prohibitum rather than malum in se.

Examples

  • "It is immoral to throw lawn darts."
  • "It is immoral to juul."
  • "So what if I cheated on my husband? It's not like being unfaithful is a crime!"
  • "Filling your shoes with river water is cheap, simple and legal in all 50 states."
  • "I think that routine circumcision is unethical, but my friend keeps arguing that because it's legal it must be ethical"

See also

References

  1. ^ "'Well, It's Not Illegal!' | University of Central Florida News". University of Central Florida News | UCF Today. 2019-05-22. Archived from the original on 2022-03-24. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  2. ^ "Appeal to the Law". www.logicallyfallacious.com. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  3. ^ "Appeal to Legality: Is it Moral if it's the Law?". Cerebralistic. 2020-02-21. Archived from the original on 2021-03-04. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  4. ^ "Ethics and Law". www.qcc.cuny.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-11-28. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
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