{"id":8663,"date":"2024-01-19T18:08:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T18:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/you-try-to-live-strictly-by-the-moral-rules-contained-in-your-religions-moral-code-the-two-most-important-rules-are-be-merciful-dont-give-people-what-they-deserve-and-be-just-give-people-exa\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T18:08:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T18:08:52","slug":"you-try-to-live-strictly-by-the-moral-rules-contained-in-your-religions-moral-code-the-two-most-important-rules-are-be-merciful-dont-give-people-what-they-deserve-and-be-just-give-people-exa","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/you-try-to-live-strictly-by-the-moral-rules-contained-in-your-religions-moral-code-the-two-most-important-rules-are-be-merciful-dont-give-people-what-they-deserve-and-be-just-give-people-exa\/","title":{"rendered":"You try to live strictly by the moral rules contained in your religion&#8217;s moral code. The two most important rules are &#8220;Be merciful&#8221; (don&#8217;t give people what they deserve) and &#8220;Be just&#8221; (give people exactly what they deserve)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You try to live strictly by the moral rules contained in your religion&#8217;s moral code. The two most important rules are &#8220;Be merciful&#8221; (don&#8217;t give people what they deserve) and &#8220;Be just&#8221; (give people exactly what they deserve).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now suppose a man is arrested for stealing food from your house, and the police leave it up to you whether he should be prosecuted for his crime or set free.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Should you be merciful and set him free, or be just and make sure he is appropriately punished?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>How do you resolve this conflict of rules?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Can your moral code resolve it?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To what moral principles or theories do you appeal?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You try to live strictly by the moral rules contained in your religion&#8217;s moral code. The two most important rules are &#8220;Be merciful&#8221; (don&#8217;t give people what they deserve) and &#8220;Be just&#8221; (give people exactly what they deserve).&nbsp; Now suppose a man is arrested for stealing food from your house, and the police leave it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[55],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/8663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/8663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=8663"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=8663"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=8663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}