Is a lawful consequence keeping you in line?

[Dooby]

Or do you really want to tell me it's your conscious that prevents you from doing what is considered "evil."

For instance, you have a chance to walk into a store and take something you really want, without any lawful consequences.

If you say your conscious would prevent you from doing so you would only have to remember that with practice, it only becomes easier. So you taking more and more things would only numb your nagging conscious.


What about rape? If you could rape a female you've been lusting for and get away with it with no legal consequences would you do it? Is the legal consequence what's stopping you from your natural instincts of mating? If that's gone what else is there put you in check?

Let's take it a step further. If you could seriously harm or kill someone you completely despise with no lawful...no, let's say with no consequences, meaning not even your conscious would bug you, would you do it? This person has been a thorn in your side, impeding on your success for the longest, and severely injuring or taking that person out would make your life so much easier.

I'm basically saying, if there was no lawful consequence or even no consequences at all, would you truly live how you want to live instead of being held back by laws?

Look at you now, a tamed beast, tight roping on what's deemed socially acceptable...for what? Don't you know you die at the end anyways? Carry a gun on you at all times, live exactly how you want, and if society wants to restrict you by locking you up for a long time or even kill you, put your destiny in your own hands and kill yourself.

Because when you make it to the age of 70, 80 you will realize you living in a box of society's checks and balances has robbed you of your true potential.

So again I restate this: Or do you really want to tell me it's your conscious that prevents you from doing what is considered "evil." You had the thoughts of stealing, raping, hurting, or killing. You've had a desire. So with that being said it's without a doubt you'd act upon if there were no legal consequence.

I hope this inspires you. :shake:

 

[Brown_Pride]

the law of the lord maybe?
I turn in wallets with money, no law on that and yet i do it. It my actions really are based on my morals vs lawful action. If, for instance, someone were to rape/ kill my daughter.

My morals would be temporarily suspended and be damned to the law someone's gonna die....slowly.

 

[Shaman]

Or do you really want to tell me it's your conscious that prevents you from doing what is considered "evil."

Yes, because I am not a sociopath. I am capable of empathy and reason

 

[cleanface coney]

things like liek rape, stealing cant be justified imo

you can justify killing someone

and the back of your mind imo you just know better barring mental illness

but its hard to justify things(rape,stealing) like that except in your own head

 

[daze23]

the law of the lord maybe?
I turn in wallets with money, no law on that and yet i do it.

I turned in a wallet with money just the other night. the main reason is because I feel empathy for the person that lost it, and the pain in the ass they may have to go through to get all that stuff back (ID's, credit cards, etc)

 

[Brown_Pride]

I turned in a wallet with money just the other night. the main reason is because I feel empathy for the person that lost it, and the pain in the ass they may have to go through to get all that stuff back (ID's, credit cards, etc)

i hear ya, my point was it's not the law that prevents things from happening. Most people who don't believe in a higher power are pretty empathetic from my experience.

 

[zerozero]

one star

 

[NoMayo15]

Honestly, it depends on what we're talking about.

If I had the opportunity to steal a couple hundred bucks, and thought I might get away with it, the possibility of jail time might keep me from carrying out that action.

Rape on the other hand is so vile, so reprehensible in my opinion, that I wouldn't be able to do it even if anarchy broke out. Forcing a woman to have sex with me is not something I need other people to tell me not to do.

 

[jackswstd]

I've never had the desire to rape a woman or kill anyone. The consequences don't stop the ones who commit those acts, I don't do it because it's wrong. Not cause The Bible or God says it's wrong. God doesn't make me do good any more than the Devil makes me do bad.

 

[nineteeneightysix]

For the majority of us it's the fear of the law and the police that keeps us in line...

Why do I state this...?


To find the answer, all you have to do is go to a public washroom and look at how messy most of them are, even the ones at my University are messy, and if it wasn't for the cleaners, they would be even worse...

The messiness of public washrooms is a perfect example of what would happen to society without proper authority...

If public washrooms were always kept in pristine condition, and did not require cleaners to make them look barely usable, then I would have a different opinion...