Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and to disobey and resist unjust laws.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Every individual in a society does have a responsibility to obey just laws and to potentially disobey and resist unjust laws to a certain extent. Laws are formed with the safety and well being of the society as a whole; therefore one would hope that most laws would be considered just. However, in extreme circumstances, disobeying a law that is seen as unjust, when seen as benefiting society as a whole, is acceptable. In these situations the “bar” for what stands as unjust needs to be set, and is nonnegotiable. Without a hard and fast line that is followed complete anarchy could ensue.
Every person has a responsibility to do what is just, whether it is in the eyes of the law or eyes of what is morally acceptable. To be a responsible and active member in a functioning society an individual needs to follow protocol. Laws that are set in place to control the safety of a community are crucial to the society’s survival. Responsibility, although a daunting term, is appropriate in that in order for a law to be effective and functional individuals need to be held accountable for their actions. Just laws are not simply suggestions that should be followed; they are rules that need to be followed.
When it comes to unjust laws it is not such a black and white situation. If a law is unjust in every single situation, and at no point is morally acceptable, then it is an individual’s responsibility to stand up against the law and demand change. However, there is no standard definition as to what is unjust. Each individual can read into this situation differently. For some, animal rights hold the most significance and any law that denies them complete rights is unjust. In that case most in society would not find it acceptable or morally right to fight laws that protect a human’s security over an animal’s security. The same can be said for issues such as abortion. Some are strongly pro choice while others feel it is the same as committing murder. In this case some would fight against laws that allow abortion while others will fight to allow the women to decide. In both scenarios, if everyone fought against the standing laws chaos would surely ensue.
To resist unjust laws could hold a very different meaning to each individual in society. Some believe that the best way to resist an unjust law would be to send letters to the capitol, quietly protest by putting up signs, or simply getting word out by holding town meetings out that these laws are not acceptable. Others take resistance to a totally different level by vocally protesting, holding sit-ins, and in some cases becoming violent. This being said, unless is there is a hard and fast rule describing what is considered unjust and what “resist” means, there needs to be caution when attempting to stand up for what one individual decides is unjust.
In the most extreme cases, such as allowing genocide of an entire race, there would be no question that citizens need to stand up and fight the laws put in place by the corrupt justice system. In such cases the line is drawn and it appears to be a black and white issue. Again, caution needs to be taken when disobeying the laws. If the resistance becomes violent, then their cause can become questionable. Are they not doing the same thing in retaliation, therefore committing unjust crimes to fix unjust rules? Tactful and effective methods that do not put society as a whole in more danger than they currently stand in would be acceptable. However, more often than not violence is used to fight violence, which essentially seems to contradict the cause and undermine the end goals of the resistance.
In the end it is critical that society follow just laws in order to keep society healthy and happy. It is in fact their individual responsibility to do so. As for disobeying unjust laws, there seems to be a large grey area. Depending on the means to the end, disobeying could potentially be beneficial to the entire society, yet with strong opinions leading the way there is potential for damage to be done to the entire society. In that case, “responsibility” is too strong of a term.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Discourse Markers used:
['however', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'well', 'while', 'as for', 'as to', 'in fact', 'such as', 'in some cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.200729927007 0.240241500013 84% => OK
Verbs: 0.182481751825 0.157235817809 116% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0997566909976 0.0880659088768 113% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0535279805353 0.0497285424764 108% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0194647201946 0.0444667217837 44% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0973236009732 0.12292977631 79% => OK
Participles: 0.0474452554745 0.0406280797675 117% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.95734986261 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0474452554745 0.030933414821 153% => OK
Particles: 0.00608272506083 0.0016655270985 365% => OK
Determiners: 0.0997566909976 0.0997080785238 100% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0194647201946 0.0249443105267 78% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0243309002433 0.0148568991511 164% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 4186.0 2732.02544248 153% => OK
No of words: 720.0 452.878318584 159% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.81388888889 6.0361032391 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.18004012822 4.58838876751 113% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.313888888889 0.366273622748 86% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.231944444444 0.280924506359 83% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.155555555556 0.200843997647 77% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.1125 0.132149295362 85% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95734986261 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Unique words: 301.0 219.290929204 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.418055555556 0.48968727796 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 52.8539070421 55.4138127331 95% => OK
How many sentences: 36.0 20.6194690265 175% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.380412469 86% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.0752368175 59.4972553346 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.277777778 141.124799967 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 23.380412469 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.333333333333 0.674092028746 49% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 43.1944444444 51.4728631049 84% => OK
Elegance: 1.35238095238 1.64882698954 82% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.481262989822 0.391690518653 123% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.102264229944 0.123202303941 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.06448723026 0.077325440228 83% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.45724836778 0.547984918172 83% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.125829091613 0.149214159877 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.176807638434 0.161403998019 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102161859254 0.0892212321368 115% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.457123975866 0.385218514788 119% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0397454707315 0.0692045440612 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.360914560091 0.275328986314 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0423084952461 0.0653680567796 65% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.4325221239 105% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 19.0 5.30420353982 358% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88274336283 123% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 7.22455752212 125% => OK
Negative topic words: 14.0 3.66592920354 382% => Less negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 25.0 13.5995575221 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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