On President Jonathan And 'Public' Assets Declaration

On President Jonathan And 'Public' Assets Declaration

IN modern society, there are acts not forbidden by law, but which are clearly governed by discretion and morality.  Moral relativism, as illustrated by the saying about one man’s meat being another man’s poison, is as old as human society. And usually individual notions of what is right or wrong engage one another in an open field of moral relativism where the law does not specify actions that members of society should regard as right or wrong. This can lead to conflicts that are hard to resolve owing to the divergent interests of “players” in such fields. Usually, such conflicts remain unresolved until society, through the appropriate channel, makes laws clarifying which of such borderline actions should be considered right or wrong, which in the latter case becomes a punishable offence, with a specific sanction for contravention.

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