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本帖最后由 ningning86 于 2009-3-28 11:54 编辑
17. 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.
Does every individual has a responsibility to obey just laws and to disobey and resist unjust ones? I find this allegation to be specious. It wrongly suggests that laws can be devided into two types: just and unjust. In contrast, there are not such evaluation standerds for the laws.
To begin with, there are no such standerds to objectedly measure whether laws are just and unjust. Whether a law is just is mesured by people, and people are not objective. Some may think the law which is good for them are just, while the law against their goods are unjust. An example in case is that if we pass a law for increaing welfare for retired old people, the retired ones will be diligent, while companys may think it is unjust. Expect benefits, culture and ethics will also impact the people`s judgement, such as the law for artificial abortion, while someone think it is good for the unprepared mother , some others think it kills the life. And in some countrys, it allows one man married with two or three different women, which is accroding to the customs and cuture of their own, although others may think it it unequal for women.
In addition, for the very function of law is to bring stability and order to the group of peple that the laws are enforced upon, the law should be obeyed equally among the population, unless it is just or unjust. If the soldier did not obey the disciplies in war, you can imagine what a mass the armed forces would be. Just like this case, if somebody obey laws and somebody do not, our society would be a mass without any order. Laws must be compulsory, without it laws can not have its funciton, and our society can not survive.
However, besides compulsory, laws should also be adaptable and flexible in certain situations, places and times. Take United States as an example, they have different laws in different states. Although the written rules of law must be fixed and seldom changed, the people that enforce the laws, as well as those who judge those who break the laws, have responsibily to see whether justive is done. Moreover, things rarely remian the same over an extended period of time, that is to say, what is true in ten years ago maybe faulse today, take the human cloning for example, it is unbelievalbe five years ago, yet it is accepted by some countrys conditionally now.
In sum, the speaker fails to recognize that theare are no such objective standerds for indiivduals to judge whether laws are just or unjust and laws should be complusory which allows nobody disobey it though personally you think it is unequal. In the final analysis, we should obey rules whether you think the laws are right or wrong.
thanks to revise: )
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