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Law, Psychology & Morality, Kenworthey Bilz, Janice Nadler
Law, Psychology & Morality, Kenworthey Bilz, Janice Nadler
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In a democratic society, law is an important means to express, manipulate, and enforce moral codes. Demonstrating empirically that law can achieve moral goals is difficult. Nevertheless, public interest groups spend considerable energy and resources to change the law with the goal of changing not only morally-laden behaviors, but also morally-laden cognitions and emotions. Additionally, even when there is little reason to believe that a change in law will lead to changes in behavior or attitudes, groups see the law as a form of moral capital that they wish to own, to make a statement about society. Examples include gay …
"Dirty Hands Revisted: Morality, Torture, And Abu Ghraib", Scott R. Paeth
"Dirty Hands Revisted: Morality, Torture, And Abu Ghraib", Scott R. Paeth
Scott R. Paeth
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