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Laws have played an important part in our society, and we equip them as weapons for protecting our right, such as the right to free-spoken, the right to vote and the like. On the surface, it
may seem an attractive suggestion that laws can be divided into just laws and unjust laws so that we should in favor of the law and overthrow the unjust laws, but after careful weighing on the mind ,we find that this argument unfairly extend the reflection when we are facing the unjust laws.
In the first hand, it is well recognized that whether the laws are just or unjust can not be determined by each individual, though each laws has its beneficiary and victim. It may seem to be beneficial to someone while at the same time some others would badly damaged, what we should care most is that whether the laws are able to contribute an great effect to the development of the society, as
well as the stability of it. Take the law of levels of tax in America for example, the one who acquire more salary must hand over much more tax while some other who gain less wage are allowed to be accepted
in a low tax rate. This may seem to be unfair to the high-salary groups. However, what we should consider is that it actually benefits all of our society for the reason that it effectively reduces the gap between the poor and the rich, the gap which would do horrific damage to the stability of the society. And thus, this law of discrimination of wage tax should be considered to be an just law.
In the second hand, the statue of laws would change constantly because we fail to guarantee that the definition of just and unjust would not fixed as time pass. We are living in a world that the appearance of society would change frequently as a result of the development of the society, which the definition of just and unjust change along with, so that the definition of laws would sometimes vary widely. An outstanding instance would be the time of feudalism when the emperor ruled the country and every sentence he threw out would be seen as a law, a law that seems just at that time, without a little explanation. However, as the development of the society, people gradually realized that only the democracy could be interpreted as just, therefore, the obsolete so-called laws would surely explained as unjust.
What I want to emphasize is that however unjust the laws is , we should obey the laws instead of struggling to overthrow them with extreme behaviors such as raid and the like, at the right time, by reason of fearing that it would strongly influence the stability of the society, we should turn to the legislatures or the senators and try to persuade the offices to amend them. That is because individual rights are more likely to be ignored than that within a group and we should always keep the fate that the truth of the world is always around us.
In sum, the definitions of just and unjust of laws are long-standing conflict in our society, not only for the reason that they can not be determined by small groups, let alone by the individual. Moreover, there is a long-standing rule that the justness of laws vary greatly along with the development of the society, so that we should not try to overthrow them aggressively without serious consideration, or lese there may be the disastrous ending toward us. |
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