Issue17【0906G背水一战三月小组】第8次作业 thanks fireofnight

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When it comes to laws, some people, including the speaker, would agree that each individual should comply just law and even more importantly, to break the unjust law. However, I strongly disagree above assertion. In my view, society people have a responsibility to conform the laws no matter these laws are just or unjust and what is significant is people should change unjust laws to just laws.

To begin our discussion, we should aware that it is arbitrary to judge the laws whether they are just or not according to the value of each individual. As a general rule, under the society circumstance, each individual fosters himself or herself personality and identity which makes anyone would his or her own judgment that causes one would define a law as fair while other would believe that is an unfair law. To illustrate this point clearly, American Constitution is a good example. As we know, in the early of 20th century, the law ordains that Caucasian could rest either the seats of white American or of African American while the African American can only sit the latter rather than the former. In the Caucasian’s perspective, nothing could be more equal than this regulation but the African American takes the opposite view. This example indicates that people should not determine the law by their own natural desire.

As people could not decide the justice of law, they have a responsibility to obey the laws if we could not tell if it is just or unjust. An analogy can be drawn with this idea: it is like the soldiers must obey the demand in the army. Providing that soldiers only follow the order they feel is right and take the dissimilar measure for the wrong order, as a result the army will entirely be collapsed at the first blow. The same is true of laws. For example, the law in Japan asserts that people must drive their cars on the left-hand side of a two-way street. If people are allowed to select at random which side of the street to drive on, driving would be risky and chaotic. In other words, imaging that in a society, each individual could resist laws casually that they realize this law is unjust and the authority of laws will totally disappear. For that matter, there would be no laws at all. If so, nothing could ensure a safe and harmonious society where public’s rights are regarded which would remove the whole society to become disorder. Absolutely, anyone would not wish this occurs and thus each individual should obey laws.

Furthermore, people should fix and change rather than combat the unjust or even the false laws. The chief reason is because there will be no progression as well as evolvement without enhancing such unfair and incorrect laws. One obvious example is the destruction of the slavery in the United States. When faced the effect of industrial evolution, there is a growing realization that having slaveries is unjust. After the Civil War, Lincoln abolished the slavery institution and established the laws that announced all men are equal. From then on mankind escapes from the slavery and gradually constructs a democratic society.

In a word, everyone in a society should obey laws and rebuild instead of resist the unjust and false laws. In this way, human society can be continuously developed.