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发表于 2006-2-14 19:29:55
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TOPIC:ISSUE 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."
WORDS:594 TIME:0:39:49 DATE:2006-2-14
提纲:
1.对待善法要遵守
2.对待恶法要具体问题具体分析
3.还有其他解决方式
There is a growing concern about the problem of attitude to laws. As is widely known, laws can be roughly divided into two groups: just laws and unjust ones. I generally agree with the author that every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws.
There is no doubt that just laws play an essential and vital role in the human society. Laws were created by our ancestors in need of establishing kinds of regulations which had been and are still needed in order to assure the normal development of society. The basic function of laws, from my point of view, lies in approximately two aspects: first, to protect people's decent rights and punish those doing harm to others; secondly, to create and maintain the harmonious environment in favor of the growing of a nation and peace among different nations. History has provided a host of facts and lessons to convince people of the necessities of the existence of laws as well as people's respect for them. Without the adjusting and regulating of certain laws, human society will end up in anarchy and show recessive consequences.
However, when it comes to unjust laws, the problem is much more complex. O n the one hand, they are laws and deserve people's obeying in terms of common sense; on the other hand, the unjust nature of these laws implies that compliance to them may result in detrimental effects to the public. Thus, the appearance of unjust laws has offered a higher requirement of human's ability of discerning and judging as well. In the first place, if the provisions of an unjust law are basically contrary to moral standard or may even bring about catastrophe to the world, they should certainly be disobeyed and resisted. For example, during World War Two, Germany made a law that proscribed protection of the Jews and anyone found to have helped Jewish people would be convicted to prison or even death. But reasoning from ethics and benevolence, it is justified to help this abject people and try to enhance the realization of equality between different peoples.
Secondly, if the unjust law has no dramatic confliction with what is right within the area of the truth and does not cause deep harm to the public, it is unwise to violate the law out of pure courage and bravery. People resisting the laws are usually those with strong sense of just and responsibility for the nation or even the world but they may lose their fighting force in advance because of their rash and crude action. What provident persons will do is to seek for a relatively assuaged way of handling the problem, for instance, through voting for another more just law or a more upright political leader who might promote the revision of the law.
What is more, it is highly possible that only disobeying and resisting unjust laws is not enough to solve the certain social problem. Take the racial discrimination for example. It is only after the establishment of the 14th amendment of the Constitution that really ends the system of slavery in the United States. Merely by action against the unjust law is far from sufficient to eradicate the issue.
In sum, people need not only sense of justice but also wisdom in face of different types of laws. We should try to find the most effective as well as moral ways to do with the existing laws and facilitate the healthy development of the society.
[ 本帖最后由 lydia31358 于 2006-2-14 22:53 编辑 ] |
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