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Moral And Religious Convictions As Categories For Special Treatment: The Exemption Strategy, Kent Greenawalt
Moral And Religious Convictions As Categories For Special Treatment: The Exemption Strategy, Kent Greenawalt
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My topic differs from the usual inquiries about morality and law, such as how far law should embody morality, whether legal interpretation (always or sometimes) includes moral judgment, and whether an immoral law really counts as law. Concentrating on exemptions from ordinary legal requirements, I am interested in instances when the law might make especially relevant the moral judgments of individual actors. I am particularly interested in whether the law should ever treat moral judgments based on religious conviction differently from moral judgments that lack such a basis.
A striking example for both questions is conscientious objection to military service. …