WHAT OBJECTION? WHAT CONSCIENCE? PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION

This article offers some reflections on conscientious objection from a conceptual standpoint, and not technical and not legislative. In the author's approach, all ethics (law's ethics also) has to do with individual choices that contribute to the identity of the person, and it's formed through the constant confrontation with truth and goodness of each decision freely taken. The law and legal systems, far from being a neutral and opaque framework, have to be based on an effective concern for justice, and this judgment is sent to each man have to obey the rules, which, being subject to human decisions, are at risk of opposing the truth. This truth remains accessible to the correct knowledge and manifests, among many other fields, in the areas of law, human rights, and professions.