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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: 523          TIME: 0:44:14          DATE: 2006-4-3

The statement is of somewhat misleading. As we know, with the development of human civilization, the definition of just or unjust law varies. As a result, whether an individual in a society has a responsibility to obey the just laws and disobey and resist the unjust laws depends on.

In ancient society, before the human beings gathering together to form a community which has a leader, a system of regulations, and so on, human beings merely did what they wanted to do, such as hunting animals for survival, coupling with women or men for producing offspring, more importantly, combining together to defend animal’s invading. Under such circumstance, there is no need for people to obey or disobey the law, because there were absolutely no laws but moral regulations, such as one can not kill another without any reason. When it comes to the era of Greek, laws were established. But they mainly served as tools for the authority to rule their citizens. And then there were many slaves, who were treated as goods and they can be traded among the so-called noble people. The ruler said that it was the law permitting trading slaves. However, this kind of things is forbidden in the society now. And it will be sound ridiculous to force those Greeks to liberate the slaves because utilizing slaves is a kind of immoral thing considered by human beings today.

One may argue that it was the responsibility of the circumstance then makes some immoral things legitimate; however, in modern society, with a high spiritual level of the human society and well-developed system of regulation, one should now obey the just law and disobey the unjust law established by our governments. Disappointedly, it is not the case. Although it is true that the laws nowadays embrace most of the areas of human's daily life, they fail to convince us in many aspects. For example, abortion, an action once considered immoral and not permitted, now is permitted by the law, although many people accuse it. Additionally, now there is a disputation among the society that whether cloning human beings is legitimate. Those scientists just deal with this project as a kind of job just like doing an experiment about the growing condition of crops in different conditions. On the other way, standing on the side of those people who tend to believe it is of great blasphemy to the human beings, they persist that every human beings is unique in this world, and it is inhibitory to make a copy of an individual just as copy a file in a computer. And they think this action should be prohibited by the law. Then we come to a dilemma. Which should we choose, permit or prohibited? We do not know.

In conclusion, the definition of just law or unjust law is a changing concept. Under different situations, the justice varies. People should choose to obey or resist the law according to the society where they live, and more importantly, to improve the existed regulations in order to service for the development of human civilization more properly.