Is it more important to avoid being immoral or being legal? Definitely immoral, laws are put into place to dictate a society, where as morals are there to dictate the individual. Most of the time an individual without morals does not take part in a society. Imagine if the world was just made of individuals, there would be no society of any kind. As much as I hate it social sturctures help nurture progress and with out that nothing would ever change, and without change there would be no life.