Limiting myself to the US, and just listing a few incidents that come to mind:
Indian Removal Act Legal slavery Jim Crow laws Coverture Japanese American internment Joseph McCarthy Richard Nixon I think that any system of ethics that equates legality with doing what is right, that holds that the majority opinion is by definition good, or that suggests that elected politicians rule justly, has a lot of explaining to do about the incidents in this list (not to mention numerous others not in the list). I tend to consider ethical points on their own merits. Of course, this requires more thought than to simply assume law and majority opinion is always right. _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
