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 or supporting your position, be sure t

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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 or supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

Justice is birth right of every individual. Though I agree that unjust laws must be disobeyed or resisted, but to every unjust law at all time and place, disobedience and resistance may cause turbulence in the government which I do not agree to. There are certain circumstances where this holds true but not ubiquitously to all cases.

To start with, let us consider the example of freedom movement of India. Led under the able guidance of Mahatma Gandhi, the best weapon and strategy of Indians was to not - Cooperate with the British government ruling India before freedom. They used to defy all laws made by the government, Dandi march, breaking of the salt law by the government, is the paragon of such tendency that Indian adopted. The history is full of such examples such as Indigo planting, quitting british goods etc. This non co-operation and defiance and resistance of laws was necessary for Indians to attain their freedom. In this case, since the government was autocratic and fascist, the defiance was justified being for the noble cause. In such cases of oppression and injustice, it is valid and infact becomes necessary to stand up against the government.

But we also have cases, where protesting and defying certain government laws can create a situation of chaos in the country and instead of being beneficial, it damages the social conditions of the nation further. Recalling the emergency declared in India in the reign of former Prime Minister, Ms Indira Gandhi. A certain section of India, Indian Sikhs, were demanding a seperate nation. Though they could have followed a democratic mean, by getting elected, tableing the bill in parliament etc, they opted to defy the government laws which caused a great deal of anarchy in the country. Emergency was declared by the government which dissolved soon after that. India suffered a great economic loss due to this disorder. In cases like these, defying and resisting government is not a benificial and best option. We must have the bigger picture in mind, whether our actions would cause long term good or bad to the society.

Not to ignore the absolute truth that, justice is a subjective term. What may be justice for one may not be justice for others. For example, having freedom to not go to school was justice for me in one's childhood. Because our understanding is limited. We are not able to see the greater good and benefit of things some times. Therefore, resisting and defying laws can prove to be disastrous then.

To conclude, I would say that indeed unjust laws must be resisted and defied but only in cases which has mass benefit attached to it with carried out with great social responsibility and prudence for greater good of all people. That justice must not be of limited scope and moreover, it must be the last option one resorts to.

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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'as to', 'for example', 'such as', 'to start with']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.247191011236 0.240241500013 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.144194756554 0.157235817809 92% => OK
Adjectives: 0.104868913858 0.0880659088768 119% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0337078651685 0.0497285424764 68% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0337078651685 0.0444667217837 76% => OK
Prepositions: 0.114232209738 0.12292977631 93% => OK
Participles: 0.0430711610487 0.0406280797675 106% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.61020340037 2.79330140395 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0355805243446 0.030933414821 115% => OK
Particles: 0.00374531835206 0.0016655270985 225% => OK
Determiners: 0.0936329588015 0.0997080785238 94% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0243445692884 0.0249443105267 98% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0149812734082 0.0148568991511 101% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2835.0 2732.02544248 104% => OK
No of words: 482.0 452.878318584 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.88174273859 6.0361032391 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68556276237 4.58838876751 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.348547717842 0.366273622748 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.269709543568 0.280924506359 96% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.172199170124 0.200843997647 86% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.107883817427 0.132149295362 82% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61020340037 2.79330140395 93% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 219.290929204 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52489626556 0.48968727796 107% => OK
Word variations: 62.2524098432 55.4138127331 112% => OK
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6194690265 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.5384615385 23.380412469 79% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6791814083 59.4972553346 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.038461538 141.124799967 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5384615385 23.380412469 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.461538461538 0.674092028746 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 45.5094158953 51.4728631049 88% => OK
Elegance: 1.91150442478 1.64882698954 116% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.382932764224 0.391690518653 98% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.108290264346 0.123202303941 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.087141999204 0.077325440228 113% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.481689653933 0.547984918172 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.175057092033 0.149214159877 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.131854348666 0.161403998019 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0827862227748 0.0892212321368 93% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.351932409492 0.385218514788 91% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.12759015572 0.0692045440612 184% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.268326963378 0.275328986314 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0422749611572 0.0653680567796 65% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.30420353982 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 7.22455752212 125% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.66592920354 191% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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