Legality vs. Morality

Is going against the law wrong? I have heard this question many times. Sometimes when I state some of my theories people say: "But that might include doing something against the law! And that can't be right!". This is, of course, a bunch of nonsense. Legality of something has nothing to do with making it right or wrong. It only determines what acts the goons hired by the governing gang will punish you for. The government seeks to legislate morality upon us just as it has been for the past three thousand years. The problem is that nowadays the government has its nose in practically everything and can therefore exercise a much bigger level of control than it could back in the year 1000. So when is going against the law right? Well, whenever the law is immoral you have the right not to follow it. The only problem is having to deal with the possible unjust punishment (so I would not advise anyone to do anything clearly against the law...). The more important question here seems to be: When is the law ever moral? Back in the 1700's in the USA slavery existed. It was legal, but clearly it was immoral! In Soviet Russia Stalin's purges were legal, but were they moral? Or how about Nazi persecution of Jews? Legal AND moral, or legal BUT NOT moral? As James Madison said, men aren't angels! And legislation is, sadly, written by men. We must therefore find morality which is beyond the mere musings of mankind. Justice must be objective, not made up. Luckily it just happens that natural law does exists. It is out there to be discovered by our reason, not our opinions or experiences. Morality is a dispassionate judge for all things. It is never changing and eternal. It is universal like any law of physics. Arbitrary laws based on opinion are illegitimate whether enforced by one man (a despot) or a lot of them (a democracy).

It just so happens that a few days ago we celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ. Christ himself became a victim of arbitrary illegitimate law; he was one of the two great Western philosophical giants to die by democracy (the other being Socrates). And it was he himself who said "Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch". The problem appears when the blind, in their self-righteous rage which killed Jesus, force us all into servitude and slavery in the name of "Legality".