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题目：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."
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    According this issue, everyone has two duties: obey just laws and disobey unjust ones. I tend to disagree with this claim because this claim is too extreme in at least three aspects. First, whether the law is just cannot be estimated by single people. Second, that some people obey a law while others disobey will brings confusion. Third, it abets people to challenge the inviolability of laws.
    To begin with, I think law is called law because it cannot be changed by personal will. In most conditions, people consider laws just or not by their own interests or personal freedom instead of its contents. For example, the constitution prescribes people has the duty to pay tax. Every year there is a great number of people ignore it because they think it is unjust. In their opinions, ratepaying robs money from them, so they act in the same thought as the issue mentions. As we know, revenue is the basic earning of a nation. No government can still take charge of the country without it. But if we let people to justify laws, our government and nation may lose their capability to survive. Certainly, when a law does not affect on our personal lives, we may justify it impersonality. But it is a pity that the most importance laws all have directly effects on our daily lives, so it is unadvisable to let people consider whether a law is just or unjust by them.
     Moreover, different groups of people may have different judgments to one law. As the adage says: When there are a thousand readers, there will a thousand different Hamlets. Similarly, different people with different value systems will have different opinions on the same law. Such as  the fact that there is law forces employers to pay double for their works beyond eight-hours working time. Of course this law is popular by laborers while various of employers are dissatisfacted.  When people who agree the law obey it, those who have opposite views may refuse obeying. Now the problem appears:  If people have the right to disobey laws that they consider is unjust, overtime workers who demand extra salary by law and those employers, which side is right? How to resolve their conflict? Law is a double-edged sword, when it protects someone's right, it must have limited some others.
     Besides, this statement has a latent harmful threaten: it abets people to challenge the inviolability of law. Laws can be performed by force because its supporter is the nation power. When a person disobeys a law, what he really challenges at that time is the government and the nation power. In any addition people must obey laws just like soldiers must submit orders. Even though there is some inconsequence in laws, they can be amended only by legislatures. In other words, when all the people consider laws as rubbish, the whole world will be out of order.
     To sum up, people always justify things by their own interests, habits and value system, if all of us can justify law; it will lose its fairness. People invent the concept of law to protect their rights, so only when everyone obeys them, will laws take effect as expected. Anyone who disobeys laws must be punished; otherwise there will be a terrible domino offect which can destroy our world.