Should Unjust Laws Be Obeyed?

The article on freedom John Stewart Mill wrote is basically about freedom and most people are right. We live in a perfect world, so we often have unfair laws. Many civic activists also believe in our obligation to violate our rights as well as unfair legislation. The question is, where does this freedom come from? Those folk activists believe that we have the right to be given by God and no one can take it. Legislation that is unfair and hinders our rights should not be observed.

"...... There are two types of law: fair and inequitable.I am the first person to advocate compliance with fair laws.In addition to complying with the law, we need to comply with the law. By establishing a moral responsibility for an unfair law that violates the unfair law, Kim makes it impossible to deny that civil disobedience is an important freedom.We will not allow moral freedom If pursuit of pursuit and moral pursuit means citizen's disobedience, it is natural that we must recognize that disobedience of citizens is necessary freedom, so it is obvious that this is a viable reason for disobedience But the premise is that laws that violate fraud are moral.

In his famous article "Letters from Birmingham Prison", Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes conscience as a guide to defend fair laws and break unfair laws. Likewise, Henry David Thoreau writes in his famous article "civil disobedience" that people should do what their conscience has told them rather than obey unfair laws. The position of the two writers is very close; they use a common theme of conscience, and they use a similar rhetically appealing spirit. "Civil disobedience", Thoreau insisted that men should act from their conscience. Thoreau believes that if a conscience of a person says that the law is unfair, it is the responsibility to violate that law. He ... show more

According to Thoreau to improve society, society should show that no citizen complies with any unfair government. Thoreau's conclusion is that in order to protect the principles of justice and morality from unfair government policies, people should protect their conscience, not laws. Therefore, according to Thoreau's view, true honor arises from citizen and government disobedience for reasons of personal conscience.