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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.
1 法律的存在即为合理,无论公正与否,都要遵守.
2 法律的特点决定了如果disbey, 就要付出代价.
3 绝对公正不可能存在,立场不同价值评判不同.
4 承接上一段.
5 修改法律就是为了改正不公正的法律,但还是要obey法律.
6 我们的目的是:遵守现有的,追求更好的.
Essentially, law, backed by the coercive power of the state, which enforce the law by means of appropriate penalties or remedies, is a substantial mean to maintain society stable. Laws are categorized into two types, just law and unjust law. Given that the world runs in gear, it is reasonable for its existence, no matter whether it is just or not.
Law, resembling morality, culture, mores and public opinion, is designed to control our behavior. But they are distinguished from the way how they are applied and the sequent when they are violated. Laws are enforced by the courts; if you break a law-whether you like or not-you may be forced to pay a fine, pay damage, or go to prison. This characteristic determines that if you disobey and resist the law, you have to deserve what you do, no matter whether the law you violated is just or unjust.
It is indisputable that law, enacted by lawmakers and affected by subjective criterion more or less, is not completely just. What’s more, the justice is varied due to the value, estate, standpoint of the society and individual. In case of execution, Germany and France, both of the presentations of British & US, have abolished execution. However, is it fair for other casualties? China, belonging to Continental Law, has kept execution. Nevertheless, it is seemly cruel for offends. It is confused to tell whose criterion is better. Ben Laden, leader of terrorists, strongly hostile to Western systems, adopted violent measures to resist the Western and resulted in guilty people death. But he is regarded as the savior of the Arabian nation to some extent. Meanwhile, in different period, justice alters. In feudal era, Land Constitution was satisfied with the owners while unfair to the farmer workers; in modern society, Land Constitution guarantees most people interests while unfair to who originally own land, because they were deprived from their properties.
The goal of the law is not only governing our conducts, but also intended to give effect to social politics. Health Care, as well as loans to students who can not afford tuition fee, and so on, depends on nation finance, which comes from tax system. Some affording more may assert that it is unjust to them. The significance of existence of law is not justice, but the rationality. Maybe individual do not consider it judicial, in a high level, it is just and suitable to society.
We have the privilege to restrain inequity, rather than law. Born to be equal, no one is special to break the law to threaten other people’s safety and properties. In certain period, after a wide-range discussion and effect of application, laws that are not correct and unsuitable can be amended by legal way to fit the development of the society. It means that you never violate law before a better and appropriate law has enacted. Moreover, an orderly society is the foundation of ensuring citizens to live better. Constitution, fundamental to the nation, can not be changing more frequently. It is our obligation to obey law. If we allow the first disobedience, there will be the second, and the third. Consequently, social system may collapse.
Admittedly, anyone who pursues justice wants a just legitimate system. However, there is no complete just and equal law. And that is what our human is seeking after: obeying what we have had, searching for what is better. |
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