Social atmosphere refers to the hobbies and habits popular in society. The premise of today's debate is that the social atmosphere needs to be improved, which shows that the social atmosphere has shortcomings and we need to improve it. Especially in modern society, with the diversified development of various cultures and values and the diversification of social life content, the conflict between various values and interests is becoming more and more obvious, and the social atmosphere needs to be improved urgently, and there are only two ways to improve it-morality and law. Law and morality are both normative systems, which play an important role in improving social atmosphere. However, we advocate giving priority to law, supplemented by morality, because law can improve social atmosphere more effectively and flexibly than morality. ?

First of all, the law is authoritative. Improving social atmosphere requires authoritative code of conduct. Laws are formulated and promulgated by the state and have the highest authority. Legal norms are the highest code of conduct, and moral norms cannot override legal norms. "There are 10,000 Hamlets for every 10,000 readers" is a variety of right and wrong concepts and criteria. Without a unified set of authoritative rules, how to achieve harmony and order?

Secondly, the law has mandatory effect. This is the reason why law and morality are rules, but their functions are different. Morality can only restrain deviants through public criticism and conscience condemnation, but can't impose strong sanctions on them and can't provide effective relief to victims, and law has these functions. To improve social atmosphere, we should not only promote good, but also prevent and punish evil. Morality can reveal disease, but it cannot continue to cure it; Morality can distinguish good from evil, but it cannot punish evil. Law is a net, weaving good and evil; Law is the umbrella to protect the weak and punish evil; Law is a sword, upholding justice and eradicating evil spirits. If there is no law, how to punish "Zhang Jun" with morality and restore peace in Chongqing; If there is no law, how to use morality to give "the litigant Qiu Ju a statement". ?

Third, the law has universal applicability. Improving social atmosphere needs to keep pace. It is the law that leads people's behavior in the same direction. The so-called "one-person track is like a law." Morality is different in time and space. Different regions, different ages, different classes and even different nationalities have their own different moral standards. When "being brave" and "finding money without knowing it" are becoming more and more news, and people are still lamenting that "the world is getting worse and people's hearts are not old", morally speaking, those who are most condemned are the "rescuers", while many western countries not only emphasize their obligations, but also pay attention to their "rights" through laws. ?

Of course, in order to improve the social atmosphere, law and morality play their respective roles and complement each other. Maintaining society by law can treat both the symptoms and root causes, but the law is not omnipotent and cannot touch every corner of society. Therefore, although maintaining social order mainly depends on the law, it does not abandon morality. Only by giving priority to law, supplemented by virtue, can we suppress evil and promote good, and let the evolution of civilization go further! ?

Another debater, "sit and talk, can only be immune;" If there is a law, you can help the world! " Improve social atmosphere, let us hold high the banner of law!

1. From the characteristics of adapting to the primary stage of socialism today. In the primary stage of socialism, social productive forces are underdeveloped, social material wealth is not rich enough, and morality as a social and economic superstructure is far from reaching the ideal level. In other words, morality cannot develop independently and become the main force to maintain the stability of the whole society. Remind other debaters that this may be possible in a capitalist society, but this is not what we are going to discuss today.

2. From the class situation and class struggle situation. In our country, although the exploiting class has been eliminated, class struggle still exists, and all kinds of hostile elements are carrying out reactionary activities, deliberately destroying and overthrowing the socialist system in economic, political, ideological, cultural and social life. This is a major factor of social instability. Without strong struggle and sanctions, social stability is out of the question. The class nature of morality determines that it can do nothing about it. In other words, in class society, the moral concepts and standards of the ruling class have no effect on the ruled class, and can only be replaced by legal sanctions of the ruling class!

3. From the perspective of the role and effectiveness of the law. Law is not only a tool to implement the people's democratic dictatorship, but also a sharp weapon to punish hostile elements. It is also an important means to adjust and solve the internal relations and contradictions of the ruling class. In this way, the social relations and social order that are beneficial to the ruling class (that is, what we call social stability) can be truly established and play a role in maintaining social stability under the coercion of the state. The combination of these two important functions shows that law plays a major role in maintaining social stability.

4. From the comparison of legal and moral binding force. The mandatory and authoritative nature of the law is incomparable to moral norms. The normative function of morality mainly depends on public opinion, personal beliefs, habits, traditions and education. Obviously, this is a soft constraint, which has no effect on the existing illegal and criminal acts, or the real function of morality is purely prevention, while the law treats both the symptoms and the root causes. It has both authoritative punishment and powerful deterrence, which plays an effective preventive role. This makes law play a more important role than morality in maintaining social stability.

The emphasis in the debate is on maintaining social stability. Since it is to maintain social stability, it is obvious that the focus of solving the problem should be on the unstable factors of society, not the favorable factors. The original intention of the debate is to deal with a few factors that lead to social instability. Who is more effective, law or morality?

Our answer is: law. Because the pertinence, compulsion, seriousness and effectiveness of the law are beyond moral reach. To sum up, we have every reason to believe that social stability is mainly maintained by law. "Two Debates and One Question" once had a person who was highly praised by morality and killed a wicked person who was deeply condemned by morality, which made people very happy. Please use your morality to make the following judgment:

1. Is the murderer moral or not (noble)? If he kills his opponent, he still thinks his morality is noble. What is your morality? A murderer here emphasizes the contradiction of morality (immorality)-but why please people? Please explain to your opponent. That is to say, the debater's morality is different from everyone's, so should I listen to you or everyone's? ?

It is not difficult to see from another debater's answer just now that it is difficult to judge the right and wrong of a thing by moral standards. Excuse me, how does the other party deal with this incident morally?

3. Is moral condemnation enough? If so, people can do similar things, such as killing people and robbing banks, and so on, just waiting for moral condemnation. In this case, how to maintain social stability,

Many living examples tell people that morality can't really solve problems. The other debater just shirked the responsibility of moral weakness to the law. Is the opposing debater suspected of immorality? "