Significance
The existence of laws without ethical content may be used to support the central claim of legal positivism, namely that law and ethics are separable. Legal positivism states that one may disobey certain laws without doing wrong, or conversely that one may wrongfully obey certain other laws. Often contraventions fall into this category.
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“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
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