Internal Morality

I believe that Fullers belief that "when men are compelled to explain and justify their decisions, the effect will generally be to pull those decisions toward goodness" could very likely be valid and could certainly be the case for most men. That belief explains why most people probably do follow the law aside from the Role of Recognition. Breaking the law, personally, is an embarrassing thing to do. If one breaks the law, without thinking about the consequences then most likely, if caught, they will have to explain and justify breaking the law. That could humiliating to any reasonable man. Knowing this, most men will most likely avoid breaking the law in fear of being embarrassed or humiliated when trying to justify the reasons for doing wrong. It is morally wrong to break most laws. However, there are exceptions of course. Any human being that murders or rapes or commits any major felony, obviously has a problem psychologically. I don't believe that most criminals have the mental capacity to think of the consequences before committing the act. This explains why most criminals have no education and are usually mentally ill in some way. In this situation, Fullers belief would not stand valid. There are always exceptions to any rule. For the most part, for any reasonable man, I believe that what Fuller asserts could be possible to why people follow laws. Although there could be many other reasons for every person as to why they individually follow the law, Fullers belief makes most sense to me.

I am an example of Fullers belief in that I follow the law because I would be so embarrassed if I committed a crime and had to be exposed to everyone and looked down upon.