Western legal systems have long been so complicated that few people can really be sure whether they are breaking laws (including lawyers).
Added to this is the further problem of not being sure which country’s legal system covers a particular discussion or transaction the outcome of which these days often seems to be determined by the country of the Internet server that is hosting the discussion.
However, up to now, people in the ‘Western World’ could at least fall back on what seems reasonable ie. ones basic understanding of morality.
Times have changed with the participation of more Eastern Bloc countries whose religion based legal systems may well be completely alien to egalitarian and pragmatic humanist based Western morality.
Could it be that we blog today … and get stoned to death tomorrow?
