For a group of actors to justify taking an otherwise immoral action against another actor, their justification must be based on ethical premises rather than solely legal ones. However, it is unclear whether the law can possess this ethical charge. If certain things, such as a plot of land, cannot be regulated through law, we must appeal to ethics to regulate them. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Laws are separate from both rules and ethics, and while rules facilitate mutual understanding and encourage dissent, laws require obedience and discourage dissent. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| The connotations of power associated with rules and laws are very different. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Therefore, laws do not necessarily contain an ethical obligation to obey, but are rather enforced through fear of punishment. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| However, such a state cannot exist because it is practically unattainable, and even if it did, it would still suffer from the incompatibility between states and individuals. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| In this scenario, Black implants a device in Jones that will force him to take a certain action when certain conditions are met, provided he does not already intend to do so. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Hobbes' values are unadmirable and lack moral justification.

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