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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: 823 TIME: 0:45:00 DATE: 2006-11-29
提纲:
1, 法律是否公平在个人看来是不同的 -
2, 因此破坏不公平的法律不可行 -
3, 可以通过别的方法来改变不公平的法律 -
Ever doubted about the law which restricts your actions, manages the society and stands for justice? I think this is common, since there is no absolute justice for every one to admit. Therefore, dividing laws into two types, just and unjust, seems too extreme and unfeasible for me. In this sense, the statement requires us to not only obey just laws but also disobey unjust laws is unacceptable, because we cannot assess a law by subjective views and break the social order under its control, or the society will face a chaotic situation.
The long history human beings have shared has built diversified value systems to assess justice. In ancient Rome, noble was authority and they were representative of justice; in ancient China, emperors were the overwhelming force and required obeying; in ancient Greek, the justice belonged to all citizens in a democratic way. However, although nowadays many standards such as human rights, peace and freedom have become widely admitted ethos standards and become basis of many laws, nations are still diversified with each other on the issue of justice. Even in a same nation, laws can be different since they stand for different people's value systems and interests. The United States, for instance, contains different states who have their diversified laws, some admit penalty to death, while others do not. In other words, laws are different from time to time and place to place, and views about them will be different by individuals. The chief aim of modern laws is to strike balance between most social members and manage the society so that it can develop steadily.
In this sense, if we admit actions as disobeying unjust laws, unpredictable outcomes will happen. Because whether laws are just is subjective to ever one, some will easily break laws and do harm to the society if they are permitted to do so. Criminals may think their life is poor because of unjust laws, and then break it by robbing banks and shooting the innocent. A TV program called Prison Break tells a story that the hero in it tries to help his brother, who is sentenced to death with a false judge. It might be tempting to think this story is about those who disobey unjust laws. But in my view, since the penalty itself is false and operated with illegal measures, it is out of question. Although this kind of problems won't take place in those states where penalty to death is not accepted, it cannot be the evidence of disobeying unjust laws. Moreover, in this story because the hero disobeys laws and breaks the prison, some criminals get out of high walls and injure the innocent. A more realistic example involves the current situation in Iraq. After American's attack and changed its government, Sunnis lost their power in the country and they do not admit the laws under Shia, another religious factor in this nation, government's management. Insurgences and battles keep on, more and more citizens and American army men are suffering from dangers of death. To conclude, laws cannot be broken in illegal ways or the society will face chaos.
But to some people, chaos seems to be necessary if a nation's laws are unjust and serve for autocrats, tyrants and other evil factors. They may cite many insurgences in history that changed governments as evidence. However, in my view any such concerns are unwarranted and dangerous in modern society. As we know, many countries have developed mature legislation system and it is admitted for citizens to change laws in democratic ways. According to me, political and peaceful ways seems more effective and feasible. If the two factors in Iraq can take a political way, asking for citizens' vote to decide the power, that nation won't be trapped into such a chaos. Even in some nations, laws are operated by some autocrats, the United Nation can play a role to help its people. With the process of globalization, the international society will have more influence to spread the widely admitted value system and human rights--therefore making every member in it develops in a restricted way.
To sum up, I think the concern that unjust laws should be disobeyed is not feasible and effective. Nevertheless, this does not mean we should obey any law absolutely. Oppositely, there is no perfect law and we can change them in political methods, by entering councils, governments with personal efforts, or using public media and forces to influence legislation agencies. On the other hand, many laws are not developed maturely and cannot restrict the society widely. So social ethos and morality should be taken by every people to perfect the laws, as long as to ensure a steady society, and as long as to ensure the innocent are not vulnerable. Just as the directives of a hero called RoboCop, in a movie, say: first, serve the public trust; second, protect the innocent; third, uphold the law.
第二次写,思路有点乱,可能是太想写出东西来了,感觉用PB的那个例子很不合适在这里
[ 本帖最后由 lastangel 于 2006-11-29 11:50 编辑 ] |
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