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Is euthanasia just or unjust, as the speaker asserts? It is difficult to make a judgment upon this
controversial issue. In my opinion, first, a law cannot be simply categorized as either just or unjust; and secondly, obeying or disobeying a law is actually a complex one.
Admittedly, sometimes we should disobey and resist unfair laws to protect our legal rights. For example, I must refer to two important and famous persons in the history of the United States, one is Abraham Lincoln and another is Martin Luther King. The latter waged the significant “slavery movement” to claim the same rights as the whites for the blacks. And during the Civil War, Lincoln enacted the laws the entitled equal rights to the blacks with the whites. In some particular history period, we can uphold our legal rights through disobeying or resisting the unjust laws.
However, some laws are just or unjust is rarely a straightforward issue. It depends on one’s personal value system and the cultural background one lives in. This is especially true when it comes to personality. Returning to the question asked at the beginning of this argumentation, individuals with particular religious belief tend to view laws allowing someone being killed by eating some medicine are unjust, while individuals with other value system view such laws as just. In addition, the fairness of any law also depends upon one’s personal affairs. One fundamental function of our laws is to resolve disputes peacefully. Even in a well-ordered society, people have disagreements and conflicts arise. If two people claim to own the same piece of property, and they do not want the matter settled by a duel. In situations such as which mentioned above we turn to the law and to institutions like the courts to judge who is the real owner and to make the real owner’s rights are respected. But the court loser will be malcontent and consider the law an the judgment as unjust. Is the law really unjust? I think nobody can distinguish. Interest disputes come from dissensions and dissensions exist all the time.
Evidently, disobeying and resisting so-called unjust laws will destroy the order of our society, meanwhile the party will be punished by law. Returning to the property problem mentioned above, the court loser view the law as unfair and then may do some radical and illegal actions such as make assault and battery to the real owner and his or his family or take over the piece property by force. Undoubtedly, these actions break a law and the perpetrator will be forced to pay fine, pay damages, or even go to prison. In our collective life these similar conditions happen everyday, if everyone disobey and resist the laws they consider as unjust, not only they cannot achieve the goal they expect but also our well-balanced society will be disordered.
In sum, from what has been discussed above, we may finally draw the conclusion that if a law is just or unjust and should we obey or disobey an unjust law is truly complex. So if someone considers a law as actually unjust, an effective an appropriate means of legal reform should be done, such as publishing discussions in the forum or providing device to the government, but not disobedience or resistance.
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