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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.
Laws occupy an important position in our present society. They regulate the residents' behaviors, keep the whole country in order, and punish the criminals and so on. The speaker holds such suggestion that law in our society can be divided into just ones and unjust ones, and in his opinion, all of us should be for the just laws and be against to the unjust ones. However, I can hardly stand by him as I think some of his assertions are two unilateral.
On the one hand, there is no such an absolute criterion to decide whether such a piece of law is just or the opposite. It is not difficult to understand that everyone has his or her own standard in defining laws ruled in his of her surroundings. The permit of gay marriage is believed to be reasonable for those gays and open-minded people; nevertheless, it is thought to be dishallowing to some traditional-minded people. Whether euthanasia is legal has long been a hot topic. Some think that it is a violate interference to a person’s natural life, while others think that it is a respect to the patient or prisoner since they can suffer less pain. So just to part laws into just and unjust ones is obviously irrational, since public can never reach such a common sense.
On the other hand, unlike morality, the existence of laws is not to make people feel contended or peaceful but to preserve the society in good manner and order, hence it is every individual's duty and responsibility to obey every piece of law and support them unconditionally. If people behave freely just according to their inner values, the society will be in a great mop. Pythagoras thought that the state of Anarchy is the biggest evil. And law is always deemed to be the symbol of the existence of the government. So there is a certain kind of balance between the society and people, and laws coincidentally play the role of harmonization. What is more, the aim of laws is to guarantee that all of us never go beyond the powerless of our government, behave appropriately, and perform our duties. So that justice and peace can be achieved.
And the last but not the least important, even if there is a leak in our present laws, it is the Legislature's mission to fix the law but not us demos. Because in most occasions, such resistance can only bring us big expense since in order to keep the society orderly, government will sometimes sacrifice the well-being of some people, let alone that they have military as their solid backing. For example, before the Civil war, it is law that black people should suffer all kinds of discriminations. Because under the pressure of the temporal political surroundings and the benefit of that government, and most importantly, white people occupy a crucial position at that time, to keep the society from chaos, they must dispatch the blacks. It is almost useless at time to resist since they can only bring blood and antimony. However, after the civil war, when the legislature changes the prescription in the US' laws, black people are treated much better than before. So it is obvious that man alone can not conquer laws, because in order to make the whole society advance regularly, we must be the slavers of law—which are created by us to inhibit ourselves. And once rule is made, it can never be easily changed.
In sum, we can never easily divide laws into just ones or unjust ones, and besides, for the behalf of the whole human being, we must do what we hope us to do, pay attention to the laws and regularly behave ourselves, when we have collisions with the law, we can reflect it to our trusted government, better never to conquer them alone. Since it is a law, then resole them in a legal way.
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