{"id":25886,"date":"2008-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/morality-and-the-law\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:24:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:24:40","slug":"morality-and-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/morality-and-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Morality and the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OLIVER HOLMES, EL GRAN JUEZ ESTAdounidense, dec\u00eda que una persona que no tiene el menor respeto por los principios morales, termina siendo un fiel seguidor de la moral cuando con ello puede evitar la c\u00e1rcel o el pago de una multa. En Colombia pasa m\u00e1s bien lo contrario de lo que plantea Holmes: como la gente ve que no hay sanciones efectivas y que todo el mundo incumple, se siente con derecho a desobedecer y termina acomodando sus convicciones morales a su desobediencia.<\/p>\n<p>Ante esa situaci\u00f3n desalentadora, es natural que algunos crean que la soluci\u00f3n ideal para que se respete la ley est\u00e1 en el rescate de la moralidad, m\u00e1s que en el fortalecimiento de las sanciones legales. El representante m\u00e1s destacado de esa manera de pensar en Colombia es Antanas Mockus, para quien lo que hace falta es, ante todo, reforzar las convicciones morales, de tal manera que eso predisponga al cumplimiento de la ley. Convencido de eso, hace un par de semanas Mockus public\u00f3 una columna en la que le ped\u00eda al presidente Uribe que, ante la confesi\u00f3n de Yidis Medina de haber vendido su voto para permitir la reelecci\u00f3n, tomara la decisi\u00f3n de renunciar (El Tiempo, mayo 2). <\/p>\n<p>A m\u00ed me gustar\u00eda que el Presidente le hiciera caso a Mockus \u2014m\u00e1s a\u00fan, me gustar\u00eda que hoy en d\u00eda el presidente fuera Mockus y no Uribe\u2014 pero estoy seguro de que eso no va a suceder, ni siquiera cuando se logre comprobar que Yidis dijo la verdad.<\/p>\n<p>Pero no s\u00f3lo estoy seguro de que a Mockus no le van a hacer caso, sino que creo que sus admoniciones morales no son el mejor camino para conseguir que la clase pol\u00edtica se comporte de manera honesta. Para ello tengo estas dos razones. En primer lugar, porque son reclamos casi siempre in\u00fatiles: la falta de verg\u00fcenza de la clase pol\u00edtica colombiana es particularmente irredimible, y eso se debe a que no proviene de la desfachatez, que es propia de quien se cree culpable pero no le importa, sino del cinismo, que es propio de quien no ve culpa en ninguna parte.<\/p>\n<p>En segundo lugar, porque pienso que a la moral se llega m\u00e1s f\u00e1cilmente a trav\u00e9s del derecho que a trav\u00e9s del sermoneo. Me explico: cuando los individuos de una sociedad se acostumbran a respetar las normas morales con el simple prop\u00f3sito de evitar las sanciones legales \u2014como dice Holmes\u2014 terminan creyendo en esa moral.<\/p>\n<p>Con esto no quiero decir que los reclamos morales a los pol\u00edticos est\u00e9n de m\u00e1s. Desde luego que no; m\u00e1s a\u00fan, estoy convencido de que Mockus es un personaje muy saludable para la pol\u00edtica nacional. Lo que creo es que no tenemos que esperar a que la gente sea buena para tener buenos gobernantes. Lo que hay que hacer es obligar a los gobernantes a que cumplan la ley, es decir, a que respeten las instituciones. Cuando se consiga eso \u2014que todos respeten la ley\u2014 es muy probable que lo dem\u00e1s \u2014la moral\u2014 venga por a\u00f1adidura. <\/p>\n<p>Mejor dicho: es m\u00e1s f\u00e1cil formar buenos gobernantes a partir de instituciones eficaces, que formar instituciones eficaces a partir de buenos gobernantes. Aunque claro, lo ideal ser\u00eda que las dos cosas se formaran juntas.<\/p>\n<p>Ante la actual degradaci\u00f3n moral de la pol\u00edtica, me parece que lo primero que hay que hacer es fortalecer las instituciones, en particular la justicia. S\u00f3lo as\u00ed podremos conseguir que los pol\u00edticos terminen por portarse bien. \u00bfQu\u00e9 m\u00e1s da si no lo hacen por convicci\u00f3n moral sino por miedo a que los castiguen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Holmes, the Great American Justice, said that a person that does not have the least respect for moral principle, finishes being a faithful moral follower when with it he can avoid jail or payment of fines.  In Colombia, he passes the opposite of what Holmes plants: as the people see that there are not effective sanctions and everyone breaks the law, one feels the right to disobey the law and finish accommodating its moral convictions to its disobedience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","medium-el-espectador-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Morality and the Law - Dejusticia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/la-moral-y-la-ley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morality and the Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oliver Holmes, the Great American Justice, said that a person that does not have the least respect for moral principle, finishes being a faithful moral follower when with it he can avoid jail or payment of fines. 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