Okay people- this is a direct quote from a respected critique of attorney/client privilege: "An immoral sort of act, is that sort of act, then tendency of which is, in some way or other, to lessen the quantity of happiness in society." Is anyone else really not satisfied with that definition. When UPN cancelled Star Trek: Enterprise, a lot of
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Moral/Immoral seems to conotate some kind of basis in a religion/philosophy that people have been following for countless generations. And immoral acts not always illegal acts. Many see adultery as immoral, but it's not illegal. But murder is illegal AND seen as immoral. Then there are things like abortion and gay marriage that are illegal in some states/countries and seen as immoral by some, but not all, people. Or, may be legal and still seen by some as immoral. I think I definition of an 'immoral act' is not possible, because each culture/ethnic group/country/state has different views on what acts are moral or immoral.
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