HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, Dwarkin, Wolfenden Report
28 Jan 2013
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The government is not only allowed, but has a positive duty to regulate private morality. Dworkin tries to respond mill"s perspective in a stronger-type of objection and a reply to devlin: think not only of justice but also justification. Begins with the wolfenden report: overhaul of criminal law in england about morality. There should be a law against that because it seems right. Immorality (deeming something immoral) as long as it doesn"t affect by it (injured, hurt, or coerced) then it shouldn"t be criminal or punished. It is not enough for something to be immoral to be targeted by criminal sanctions. In addition to being immoral it has to harm someone to be sanctioned. Devlin argues and challenges the view that private immorality can ever be harmless: even though its consensual and private, it doesn"t mean that its private. He evaluates the position that private immorality shouldn"t be sanctioned: he described three types of thinking that hold this view.
