issue17 【Jet小组】第八次作业

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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: 395          TIME: 01:25:53          DATE: 2008-2-18 17:59:43
I object the speaker's assertion that there are two types of laws: just and unjust and each member of a society obeys just laws and disobeys and resists unjust laws. In this era of different religions and various cultures violently interacting with each others, the reality of society environments and history of law help us learning about the inappropriateness of regarding laws as just or unjust things, members of society should reveal their attitudes towards the law in favor of the society most important benefits and his benefits.
Admittedly, individual in a society should obey just laws, if these laws can be regarded as just. For examples, it is widely accepted that no one can not take the commodity sold in supermarket without payment ,robs the money of bank, or the police forces enforced law to arrest person who do that with the order of court .Obviously  the law ,endowing the police to do that ,is just .
However, not every law can clearly be thought as just or unjust by people, particularly contacting with the mores, attitudes, and political climate in certain time .For instance, the Prohibition experiment in the U.S. during the 1920s aptly illustrated the complexity of the judge. The history teaches us the inappropriateness of addressing social problems like alcohol on a societal level. In view of the fact that the enacting of the Prohibition experiments had been accompanied with the rampant gang violence in the history of American, it is difficult to give a yes or no answer.
In addition, in face of unjust laws, people should struggle for rights in a way according the law, while the disobeying and resisting unjust laws might bring about destructible influence towards the stability and normal development of a society. Martin Luther King, working for civil rights of African American nonviolently, is a great example. In that time he lived, the laws of some states prescribed many items discriminated African Americans, extremely unjust .If people resisted those laws, the contradiction easily brought about violent activity which leaded a series of serious social problems. In short, we take the legal means to tackle the unjust laws, for it is unwise to resist laws in a democracy.
In the final analysis, given particular mores and values in a society, it is unjustifiable to deal with all laws in a simple method that divides them as just or unjust ones. We cannot adopt passively the way to resist and disobey the unjust law, only in a legal struggle , and it is possible to protect our benefits.
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[ 本帖最后由 mix99 于 2008-2-18 23:45 编辑 ]