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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.

Whether a law is just or not cannot be determined by any individual. It differs from person to person, from society to society. While there is no clear criterion for the justice of law, I doubt that we can categorize laws as just and unjust. Generally speaking, I think everyone is obliged to obey the law, nevertheless, in some extreme cases, resisting the law may become an option.
While we always say that someone is brought to justice, we are actually admitting tacitly that the law is just. At the same time, the culprit may deem the law as unjust because in his opinion what he did should not deserve such stiff penalty. When most people in China consider the law that demands monogamy just, most Indians would find it hard to accept if the law were enforced on them. The controversies over certain laws in terms of whether they are just or not always exist. Take the death penalty as an example. Many people find the law that inflict death penalty on felons just because they believe that what the culprit did was vicious and unbearable and deserves any severe punishment meted out. On the contrary, the remnant may insist that life is sacred and no single law has the right to determine the end of a life. As a result, they would deem the law unjust.
Despite the fact that sometimes laws may seem unjust to some of us, it is requisite that everyone obey the law as long as the law itself doesn’t deviate from the roughly right course. The righteous law is sanctified once it is enacted. Respect should be paid from everyone under its command. It shapes economics, politics, and society in numerous ways, and serves as a social mediator of relations between people and brings stability to the world. In a society like we have today, disobeying and even resisting laws should not be an option. Even as we confront the so-called unjust laws, disobeying it would only have us sit on the other side of the bars in the jail, whining about the unjust of the law. It would be more rational that we obey the law in the first place, and try to apprise the legislators of the law’s impropriety afterwards. Furthermore, we still have moral and ethical principles to serve as righteous guidance for people’s behavior in case laws fail to do that. As a whole, the more important thing for us to do is obeying the law.
However, I did mention that there are some extreme cases. This year, resistance broke out all across the Arab world including in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and so many African countries. Part of the reasons was the cruelness of the laws in these countries. Laws there were all enacted to serve the best interest of the dictators who have been ruling these countries for decades and cared little about their people. It was against the function of the real law. Under such circumstance, when obeying the laws means suffering unmitigated unfairness, people should switch to choose rise up and resist the laws in order to attain better laws for them to obey.
To sum up, I think that we should always respect and obey the laws unless the law itself is disobeying the general laws.


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