As an addendum of2) and 4), FWIW, on the object-level I’m not particularly convinced that Ben Delo has acted particularly immorally (though I have not looked in detail at the allegations).
If we were to conflate morality with legality, we would also believe that eg anti-animal agriculture activists are evil terrorists, and that open science is similarly evil. Moreover, since there is not a particularly strong principled reason to privilege US/UK law as moral guidance over the laws of other countries, we should take seriously the possibility that we should revise our views based on the legaldoctrinesofothercountries, which may have some counter-intuitive results.
As an addendum of2) and 4), FWIW, on the object-level I’m not particularly convinced that Ben Delo has acted particularly immorally (though I have not looked in detail at the allegations).
If we were to conflate morality with legality, we would also believe that eg anti-animal agriculture activists are evil terrorists, and that open science is similarly evil. Moreover, since there is not a particularly strong principled reason to privilege US/UK law as moral guidance over the laws of other countries, we should take seriously the possibility that we should revise our views based on the legal doctrines of other countries, which may have some counter-intuitive results.
Strongly agree. It’s what I was getting at with the malum prohibitum thing.