Objeción de conciencia y equilibrio

La objeción de conciencia pone a prueba las bases del Estado de Derecho, pues confronta los principios básicos que sustentan el orden público y la paz social: la dignidad de la persona humana, de un lado, y el respeto a la ley aplicable, de otro. Porque este equilibrio, que la objeción de conciencia no sólo no desestabiliza, sino que –por el contrario– corrige los defectos del sistema, lo reequilibra. Es entonces cuando merece ser admitida o, de lo contrario, se resiente el Estado de Derecho, por dañarse uno de sus principios básicos, la dignidad humana. En esta búsqueda, la trayectoria doctrinal y jurisprudencial de los países democráticos constituye un instrumento de gran utilidad.

The moral objection tests the Rule of Law´s bases because it confronts the basic principles that support the public order as well as the social peace: human being dignity on the one hand, and the respect to the applicable law on the other hand. Because this harmony, which is incredibly established in the 10th article of the Spanish Constitution, is challenged when moral objection is invoked, it is convenient to approximate to its essence, with the point of making easy the law operators job when judgment is concerned. When I talk about essence, I mean the point where moral objection not only is not subversive, but also, on the contrary, it corrects the system’s defects and, moreover, it rebalances them. It is at this point when moral objection is worthy of being admitted because if it is not, Rule of Law would be weakened as a consequence of damaging one of its basic principles which is human dignity. On this research, the doctrinal and jurisprudential career path of the democratic states sets up a very useful instrument.