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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."

观点：不同意
1。辨识just, unjust law不统一
2。有些被认为是unjust law 也必须遵守
3。反对unjust law 的方法不是disobey 和 resist 而是通过合法手段解决。

Whether it is everyone’s duty to disobey and resist the laws which are considered to be unjust, as the speaker puts it, is a question the answer to which worth consideration.

Laws are those restrictions set by the government in the name of represent the benefit of the multiply. In other worlds, the laws, as their definition, are not designed to be protected the benefit of every one in a society. Consequently, different people might have different judges on whether the law is just or not. Take the laws in China as an example. In china, those who commits to murder deliberately will be sentenced to death. This piece of law might be considered as just one to most common people for the reason that this law, though seems somewhat cruel, can make those criminals think twice before they conduct the murder and in turn protect the safety of the most people. On contrary, for those criminals, this law might be attributed to an unjust one, for they can simply cite the evidence that if the same crime is done in America, they can still have their rights to live. They may even acquire, according to this law, whether the lives of the Chinese are more valuable than those of Americans. That is, to different person, the just or unjust of the law might have different meanings and criterions.

However, we are live in the society, the peace of which is achieved when every citizen takes obeying the laws of the society as a responsibility, no matter what he or she thinks about the laws. If most of the people of a society consider the law that thieves should be punished is an unjust one and consequently begin to disobey and resist such law, the society might be in chaos with the thieves everywhere. Similarly, the education for the children in certain range of ages is compulsory in many countries. Is this a just law? In fact, to be educated or not, if the benefit of the society is not taken into account, is completely a matter of private, which should not be disturbed by neither parents nor teachers. Nevertheless, if all the children take disobeying and resisting this law as their responsibilities, the improvement and prosperity of the human society might be impossible. Sometimes though the law is to some extent not absolute just or unjust considered by parts of citizens, the citizens as a part of the society still possess the responsibility to obey them for the sake of the peace and improvement of the society.

Admittedly, to obey the law of the society regardless it is just or not does not necessarily means that the citizens can do nothing but tolerate them facing a law that is the unjust. Though to disobey and resist is not the effect way to solve the problems, we can appeal to those legitimate ones and use the process which is warranted by the regulations to defeat against the unjust laws. The discrimination of the American Africans, which had once been set as laws in America, was eliminated by the efforts of the people through the legal way. To change the unjust laws in a legitimate way can not only make the society develop into a better one but can also avoid disturbing the peace of it.

As a conclusion, though there are just and unjust laws, to disobey and resist is not the correct way to fight with the unjust ones, and sometimes to obey the laws no matter it is just or not might benefit the society as well as the citizens of it.