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Our behavior in the public sphere is regulated by law.

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Law, the legal rules, are made by the authority, and they are compulsory.

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This means that these rules are external.

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They are not made by you or by me.

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They are not made by the individual who must obey them.

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They are made by someone or something superior.

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the state, the city, the government, the principal of a school, that's why we say that the law is

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external. We also say that the law is compulsory because we must follow the rules, the legal norms,

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because if we don't, we can be punished. Now, it's important that you understand the difference

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between legal rules and moral rules. Morality is also made by norms, but they are different.

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They are not made by external authorities. They are made by yourself. Your morality is made by

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your own moral conscience. Morality is formed by rules that tell you what is right and what is

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wrong, and it is your conscience that tells you what is correct or incorrect. If you don't obey

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your own moral rules, nobody will punish you, but you will feel bad. You will feel guilty. You will

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feel what we call remorse. Imagine, for example, that you lie to a friend. He's a very good friend

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of yours and you tell him a lie if you do that maybe he will never discover and he will never

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punish you for that but you won't feel okay you will feel remorse because you broke one of your

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personal moral rules which is being sincere with a loyal friend in the public sphere we have then

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the law, the legal rules, and also each person has their own moral rules. This means that sometimes

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there can be conflicts between morality and legality. Sometimes the law permits things

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that some people consider immoral. That's what happens, for example, with abortion. Abortion is

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permitted in Spain in certain cases, but some people consider that it shouldn't because it is

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immoral. Now, sometimes the situation is the opposite. Sometimes the law forbids things that

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people consider morally correct. For example, some people think that it should be permitted

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that you can vote when you're 16, but the law forbids this because the legal age to vote is 18.

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Now, what should we do when there is a conflict between the law and morality? There is a dispute

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here some people think that the law should always be obeyed because if we break the law whenever we

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think it is not correct life together in society would be impossible but other people disagree

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other people think that law is only fair and acceptable when it respects morality so whenever

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a law breaks basic moral rules, it shouldn't be followed and we should try to resist it

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and to change it because it is unjust.