Creates tensions between private morality and law
"...these are many things which are immoral, but which are not illegal. Or, to put it in another way, there is a wide difference between sin, with which the law is not concerned, and crime, with which the law is deeply concerned"
Evaluation - Barclay is questioning Fletcher's ideas that autonomy and individualism is crucial for situation ethics. For instance, hereditary factors impact a person's freedom. He is also concerned that "what the law permits, it approves". Thirdly, with the priority on freedom there is concern for the impact on community