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Issue17 by 灵感女孩

Prompt: "There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individualin a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws."

Laws enacted by the authority are implemented to ensure stability and order to individuals and groups that the laws are enforced upon. Can laws be classified as just and unjust? Should people obey only just laws but disobey and resist unjust laws? In response to this issue, we need to investigate the nature of law by critical analysis of concepts and hypothesis, analyzing how people should react to laws comprehensively from the dialectic perspective. The statement, in my point of view, is too extreme, since laws can't be categorized as either just or unjust, especially not by an individual; and the duty of amending laws should be carried by authorities or institutions, yet it's not a rational way for individuals to disobey and resist laws they find unjust.

Famous Greek Philosopher Aristotle once said that two elements are essential to the implementation of law: everyone obeys the law and the law itself obeyed by the populous is good law. However, defining "good law" or "just law" is a complex process that might incur all kinds of voices. Every law can be viewed as both just and unjust because it may be just to one group of people yet unjust to another. For example, people have dissenting opinions on abortion: groups that advocates for women's freedom may view abortion as protecting rights for women, for themselves can decide whether they want children or not; groups that considers abortion immoral may argue that abortion deprives the human right of living. Similar examples can also be found in the cases of gay marriage and euthanasia.In sum, it is difficult to make everyone agree if one particular law is just or unjust.

If an individual does not necessarily distinguish just or unjust laws in a way that everyone else concurs, he should then obey to any law that is enacted and implemented, for the very function of law is to protect the rights and bring freedom to every individual and stability of the society as a whole. For a legal system to work for a society, the law must be equal among the population. As long as it is law, people should obey it. Just as in the military, all soldiers have to do is to obey orders. If on a battle site, they only obey orders that they think are reasonable or correct, but disobey and resist to orders they believe unreasonable or wrong, this army will sure be very easily defeated. If in the same way, laws are not well implemented, that some people obey yet others not, laws will then be titular.

However, in reality, there might be unreasonable or unjust points in laws and these flaws should be corrected by authorities that enforce these laws. Although laws are most times fixed and unchangeable, they should also be adaptable and flexible in certain situations, places and times. Authorities should amend these laws according to the different situations, places and times. For example, as the technology advances, identity thieves commit crimes also on the internet, so laws ought to be up to date to regulate the internet environment and ensure people's right in this virtual ambience.

In sum, one cannot discriminate laws as merely just or unjust. As a citizen of a particular region or country, one should obey to any law that is implemented to maximize the effect of the function of law to protect rights and grant freedom equally to every individual. When laws are out of date, or not suitable for certain situations, authorities who enforces those laws should be able to adjust them and make sure the laws serve their best function. From the alalysis above, we can conlude that the author is to extreme in categorizing laws into just and unjust, and advocating that we should only obey to just laws yet resist unjust ones.

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1 文章思路很清晰 逻辑结构明确
2 第一段说laws不能被分为两类，并举例说明不同的群体对just有不同看法；然而后面又说laws是对每个人平等的，每个人都应该遵守所有法律，这里似乎有自相矛盾之处;还有abortion应该是社会问题，谈到法律，举个具体国家禁止或允许abortion的例子应该更好
3 后面提出法律应该被authorities修改，没有论据支持 稍显单薄
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