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17"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."
Although many people believe that the law, whether it be just or unjust, is a unique tool which can conduct the action of the whole society and people, I strongly agree with the author’s assertion that the every common people should obey just laws and regulations and should disobey and resist unjust laws. Certainly, there is a growing public concerning over whether the law is just or not because no matter people or government all concentrated on developing a more democratic society. I would auger that a just law are built up gradually based on the process during which human being was striving for the independence.
In the first place, it is an undoubted fact that a just law, which the common people set up with their free will, can ensure that a democratic society is developed in its healthy way. At the personal level, the just laws provided every citizen’s civil rights so that every member in a democratic society could entitled by various rights such as educational rights which a child whether he or she is poor or wealthy would be able to go to compulsory school at the right age, and voting rights which a citizen whether he or she is a black or white would be able to vote for their trusty leader in the election, and the housing rights which prohibits discrimination in the sales, financing or rental of housing because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, and so forth. At the community level, a sound society system is provided by just laws and regulations in order to establish a secure and healthy society environments in which the people, teachers or students, engineers or doctors, workers or farmers, live and work every day. It is clearly, for instance, that a father could back to home safely to meet his dear son and daughter at every sunset, or that a shareholder could obtain the exact and precise business information from the targeted listed company or from the accounting firm to do the stocks transaction. At the global level, the just laws would provide fair and equal international environments of investment and commerce among the nations which accept the laws and regulations, and eliminate the trade barriers which derived from the difference trade standards. Only through the protection of the just law can a customer purchase a TV set made in Japan on China market, and a software producer could receive the payment according to the registered records at every region (where there are people who use it),.
In the second place, now that the just laws are in the name of the more merits, the unjust laws would be burden with some imputations. In general speaking, when a nation becoming a invader to implement the aggressive militaristic policy, when a company expanding to a monopolistic organization which can dominate the market, when a person growing up to an absolute free man who can follow his or her inclinations because of the defects of laws, we can ensure that the unjust laws must not only impede the society development but also blockade the people’s communication. In this case, in a society which people pursue the democratic life style, every individual has responsibilities to disobey and resist unjust laws.
Although everyone could lend the credible evidence to support that the just laws protect the people and community from various harm, and that unjust laws surely bring about the multifarious evil consequences, however, we have to recognize that the just laws has its negative aspect of the limited characteristic and the unjust laws has its positive aspect of the specific function.
To sum up, this issue is very likely controversy point that people will never be able to arrive at the absolute just laws, in other words, there is no real just laws and unjust laws because of the difference positions, religions, faiths, educations, life styles, and so on, among the difference people. The just laws and the unjust laws coexist together indeed now and forevermore. The laws should be fairness and justice during the process which people are struggling for the freedom and independence. |
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