Issue17 sisong2003--0706G-Hamming小组第八次作业

sisong2003UID: 2154005

TOPIC: ISSUE17 - "There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws."
WORDS: 458          TIME: 上午 00:45:00          DATE: 2007-1-13
提纲:
1.        公正不公正没有定义
2.        在某些方面不遵守unjust laws还是有价值
3.        如果人们都反对自己认为不公正的法律会有严重后果
The speaker asserts that every individual in a society should obey just laws, at the same time disobey and resist unjust laws. In my view, I tend to disagree with this statement.

To begin with, the speaker claims that we have a duty to disobey and resist unjust laws. However, it is not easily to define what a just law is and what the unjust is. The criterion for just and unjust laws depends on personal value system and world outlook, which change from one individual to another. Consider, for instance, one needs look no further than the application of euthanasia. According to some individuals, this to some extent equals to deprive other's living right and laws sanctioning this are definitely unjust. However, other people think euthanasia as a peaceful death can alleviate the suffering of hopeless and cureless patients as well as a help to their family. In this circumstance, a law permitting euthanasia is just. Thus, if we disobey and resist unjust laws as the speaker asserts, we will be bogged down in the Sargasso Sea of endless debate about which law is just and which is unjust.

Admittedly, in some circumstances, disobeying and resisting unjust laws can spur the political reforms of the society. For example, the laws in south of America permitted the white farm owners to have black people as their slaves before Civil War. Obviously, these laws violated the human rights of black people were unjust laws. Therefore, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, led the Union during the Civil War to destroy these unjust laws in the south of the America and liberated the black slaves. Thus, the speaker's claim has some merit in this respect.

Nevertheless, it might bring terrible consequences if individuals choose to disobey and resist laws that they consider unjust in their points of views. Take the abortion as an example. If some individuals consider laws forbidden abortion as unjust laws they may take the application of abortion in some illegal private clinics as an approach to disobey these laws. Therefore the pregnant women may run a high risk to take abortion there and it may threaten life of the mother. Moreover, the demand for these clinics may carry impetus to increase the number of these illegal clinics and may lead to the abuse and traffic of some relatively forbidding drugs. Therefore, we may live in a society with not only disordered medical care system but also gang fights, theft, financial fraud and corruption.

To sum up, I concede that there inevitably exist some unjust laws in every society, yet strictly followed, I disagree that it is the responsibility for individuals to disobey and resist the laws they consider unjust.

graduate06UID: 2223299

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The speaker asserts that every individual in a society should obey just laws, at the same time disobey and resist unjust laws. In my view, I tend to disagree with this statement.

To begin with, the speaker claims that we have a duty to disobey and resist unjust laws. However, it is not easily to define what a just law is and what the unjust is. The criterion for just and unjust laws depends on personal value system and world outlook, which change from one individual to another. Consider, for instance, one needs look no further than the application of euthanasia. According to some individuals, to some extent, this equals to deprive other's living right and laws sanctioning this are definitely unjust. However, other people think euthanasia as a peaceful death can alleviate the suffering of hopeless and cureless（后一般加疾病，不加人）patients as well as a help to their family. In this circumstance, a law permitting euthanasia is just. Thus, if we disobey and resist unjust laws as the speaker asserts, we will be bogged down in the Sargasso Sea of endless debate about which law is just and which is unjust.
看了你的结论，你这段讨论这么多，与结论不直接相关，而且逻辑上和下段结合的也不是很紧密。

Admittedly, in some circumstances, disobeying and resisting unjust laws can spur the political reforms of the society. For example, the laws in south of America permitted the white farm owners to have black people as their slaves before Civil War. Obviously, these laws violated the human rights of black people were unjust laws. Therefore, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, led the Union during the Civil War to destroy these unjust laws in the south of the America and liberated the black slaves. Thus, the speaker's claim has some merit in this respect.
不错的例子。

Nevertheless, it might bring terrible consequences if individuals choose to disobey and resist laws that they consider unjust in their points of views. Take the abortion as an example. If some individuals consider laws forbidden abortion as unjust laws they may take the application of abortion in some illegal private clinics as an approach to disobey these laws. Therefore the pregnant women may run a high risk to take abortion there and it may threaten life of the mother. Moreover, the demand for these clinics may carry impetus to increase the number of these illegal clinics and may lead to the abuse and traffic of some relatively forbidding drugs. Therefore, we may live in a society with not only disordered medical care system but also gang fights, theft, financial fraud and corruption.????
自我感觉，最后一句，和之前联系不大，

To sum up, I concede that there inevitably exist some unjust laws in every society, yet strictly followed, I disagree that it is the responsibility for individuals to disobey and resist the laws they consider unjust.
好像和你正文说得相反啊？？？而且没有再提it is difficult to define what a just law is and what the unjust is.这个问题；

用了很多经典的例子，堕胎abortion ，安乐死euthanasia，Civil War. 语言，逻辑清晰
整体组织稍有不足，应在突出自己的主题.

[ 本帖最后由 graduate06 于 2007-1-14 02:25 编辑 ]

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