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发表于 2007-8-14 03:13:20 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

Issue17: 534 words
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.

The speaker sustains that laws fall into two categories: just and unjust laws. And he insists we obey the "just" laws and disobey the "unjust" ones. I agree with the speaker on the ground that we have the responsibility to obey the "just" law, but further reflection tells me that I cannot fully accept the speaker's way of defining some laws as "unjust" and thus choosing to disobey them.

Laws are indispensible to modern society, and as modern citizens, we all have the responsibilities to obey, and sometimes more importantly, to perfect existing laws. "Law is order, and good law is good order", such is the remark of Aristotle. However, although law is of such vital importance to the stability and order of our world, no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The legal system, as any other man-made systems, is not unflawed. For instance, few states today have addressed cybercrimes in their laws. And this is the very reason why so often we have to supplement or amend the imperfect law rater than dismiss and contempt it.

Bearing in mind that law is not always perfect, we may understand that to simply depict law as just or unjust is naive and arbitrary. Whether the law is just or unjust is rarely a straightforward issue, rather, is a highly subjective judgment. The fairness of any given law depends on one’s personal value system as well as one's personal interest in the legal issue at hand. Apparently, suspects who were sentenced to life imprisonment or death do not believe that law is fair to them. To the larger extent, the law is just like a crystal that has many facets and, usually each one of us is focusing one or two facets of it while overlooking the others. Thus there could never be a practical standard to evaluate whether a law is just or not.

Disobeying "unjust" laws often has the opposite effect of what was intended or hoped for. By justifying a violation of one sort of law we find ourselves on a slippery slope toward sanctioning all types of illegal behavior, including criminal conduct. And this may eventually leads to the aberrations that the assassination of Lincoln would be taken reasonable as the gunman believed losing his slaves was "unjust" to him, that Richard Nixon might be well-off with his plot at Watergate as he would declare that law is unfair to him and he prefer disobeying, that the police would continually be under the assaults of criminals depicting that they are treated by unfavorable laws, if we keep letting disobeying or resisting "unjust" laws happening.

From what has been discussed above, we may draw the conclusion that not only does the society need law, but also the law needs every individual to obey and, furthermore, to complete .That is not only the responsibility of every citizen in this era, but also the call of the stability and prosperity of the entire society. To disobey and resist the so-called "unjust" laws is misleading, it can never be justifiable and is detrimental to every individual, although we are all convinced that the law itself is still far from perfect.