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The fact that morals and traditions cannot be directlychanged, as laws may be, by legislative enactment must notbe mistaken for immunity from other forms of change. Indeedthough a moral rule or tradition cannot be repealed or changedby deliberate choice or enactment, the enactment or repeal oflaws may well be among the causes of a change or decay ofsome moral standard or some tradition. If a traditional practicesuch as the celebrations on Guy Fawkes night is forbidden by law and punished, the practice may cease and the traditionmay disappear. Conversely, ifthe laws require military servicefrom certain classes, this may ultimately develop a traditionamong them which may well outlive the law. So too legal enactmentsmay set standards of honesty and humanity, whichultimately alter and raise the current morality; conversely,legal repression of practices thought morally obligatory may,in the end, cause the sense of their importance and so theirstatus as morality to be lost; yet, very often, the law losessuch battles with ingrained morality, and the moral rule continuesin full vigour side by side with laws which forbid whatit enjoins.
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