Law in Contemporary Society

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Individual Responsibility for Legal Outcomes

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  • A formal system provides a decision tree that makes the consequences of an action indirect. Psychology and moral intuition show that we feel less moral culpability when distanced from the consequences of an action.
  • A formal system allows us to play a role, and satisfy our conscience by pointing to the general efficacy of the system.

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