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Which statement about the relationship between law and morality is correct?
Law and morality overlap but are not the same. Some immoral acts are not legally punishable, and some legal rules, like traffic directions, have no moral content. Courts enforce law through State sanction, not morality as such.
- AAn act can be immoral yet not be punishable by law, and law can regulate matters with no moral contentCorrect
- BEvery immoral act is automatically a legal offence
- CLaw and morality always coincide completely in every society
- DMorality is enforced by courts in the same way as law
Explanation
Law and morality overlap but are not identical. Telling a harmless lie may be immoral but not unlawful, while rules such as which side of the road to drive on are legal but morally neutral. The other options wrongly claim full overlap or court enforcement of morals.
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