Issue17--Thrive小组第9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."

Today's law, as a rule which restrain people's activities and thus enhence the social stability, is much more important than ever before. In the statement, the speaker distinguishes the law into two types: just laws and unjust ones, and recommand the society to disobey and resist unjust laws. However, I would ask a question that is it necessary, or even possible?

It is true that people should obey just laws, and disobey unjust ones. The simple reason behind it is that unjust ones could not equally consider everybody. There was a law which forced African American to be slaves and serve the white. Abraham Lincoln, who consider it is not impartial, started a war between the south and the north, and finally, the law was amended, and African American are no long judged as slaves. The American society thus made a great progress on freedom and humanity.

Such example as above, however, is a very very rare. Because most legislations, at least, seems to be impartial. Moreover, if one want to disobey a unjust law, he or she would ask: what kind of law is unjust? Is there anybody or and orgnization who could identify them? Or does any method exists which would determine a law is stand with justice and the other does not? The answer is no, because justice is not something that is easy to determine.

For example, a murderer, who killed his friend by accident, should be imprisoned for 5 years, 10 years, or even more? No one could answer, so people just use the prior case to judge him: just because someone before also killed his friend and the judge sentenced him to stay in prison for 11 years, therefore he should. We could not even determine which law is just and which is unjust, how could we disobey them?

What is more, even people can tell which law is just and which low is unjust, resist against the law will cause a unexpected consequence that would  the whole society. The American civil war is a example. That war, killed thousends of people, just because of the "justice". Is it reasonable and fair for the people who died for others' justice? Perhaps justice is something for only a few people, and is base on the unjustice for other people. Final justice does not exist.

Nevertheless, no one should stop fighting for a better world.

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