Corruption of Law Preceded Dissolution Of Ethics.

To go against the norms, to act immorally, and to run counter to the wisdom of ethics requires two things: an ego-driven motivation, and an economic incentive. Law can either eliminate that incentive or enable it. “Law tended to become secular and independent of theology sooner than did ethics. It also became more definite and explicit.” [25]

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p.14.

[25] Henry Hazlitt, The Foundations of Morality, (The Foundation For Economic Education, Inc., 1998), p. 64.

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