PHIL 2060 Chapter 19: feinberg, the function of the law
11 May 2016
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The function of the law is as follows: To protect the citizen from what is offensive or injurious. To provide sufficient safeguards against exploitation and corruption of others, particularly those who are especially vulnerable because they are a. b. c. d. Or in a state of special physical, official, or economic dependence. The function of the law is not as follows: To intervene in the private lives of citizens (further than is necessary) To seek to enforce any particular pattern of behavior (further than is necessary) It is difficult to create statute prohibiting certain sexual offenses because it is difficult to establish any logical relationship between the law and the moral ideas which most people uphold. Society and the law ought to give individual freedom of choice and action in matters of private morality.
