Lee Revell wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 15:08 -0500, Peter Bessman wrote:
Frank Barknecht wrote:
It's even easier for a contract to be morally wrong, because generally
public law is influenced by the common view of morals more than
private contracts. In German that would be a contract, that is
"sittenwidrig". I think, the legal term in English is "contrary to
public policy". Contracts to sell your vote would be an example for
this, though these are illegal as well in many countries.
The fact that it's illegal to sell your vote does not prove that
contracts can be morally wrong.
OK, is it morally wrong to sell yourself into slavery? Mill didn't
think so:
I don't know --- is it morally wrong to volunteer for a suicide mission,
with 100% certainty of death? This is, obviously, a fringe scenario.
-Pete
