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.
The rule of law is an important pillar of modern society. I fundamentally agree that just laws should always be followed to maintain social order, while in terms of unjust laws, people should try to resist and reform them within the legal framework. Although there is no unanimous definition of “just laws” and “unjust laws”, I personally, in this essay, consider the former to be laws agreed by the majority of rational individuals and has an intended purpose to maintain stability and prosperity of the society, and the latter to be laws disagreed by majority and are meant to harm the society as a whole.
First, people need to strictly abide by the just laws to ensure orderliness of the society, and consequently benefit each of us. Take the simple examples of the traffic laws about drunk driving. In almost every country, it is illegal to do so and anyone violates it might be fined or jailed. This is because when a driver is drunk, he would not be able to operate a vehicle appropriately and therefore threaten the safety of himself as well as others sharing the road. To protect the interest of everyone who is likely to be involved, the laws prohibit such behaviors and no one should challenge or disobey just laws like this.
On the other hand, some laws are based on stereotype or discrimination of some groups of people and are inherently unfair. For example, laws of some countries never consider the well-being of women. According to no. 308 in Jordanian criminal laws, rapist can be exonerated if he wants to marry the victim. Otherwise, killed by her brother or father to protect the reputation of the family. Women in some Islamic countries have very little freedom as they are not treated equally compared to the men, more egregiously, those women who breach the laws are inflicted various punishments. If they submissively accept these baseless restrictions, then their life would become even more miserable. Therefore, the women there, as well as every conscious individual, should put an effort to protest against these biased rules.
Some people may challenge my position by asking about the controversial laws fall outside the scope of just and unjust. Is homosexual sinful? What is wrong with abortion? Why is racism bad? Admittedly, arguable laws of this kind arise inexorably in almost any legal system. The abortion debate in the US is a compelling example. Christian groups condemn the practice of abortion, regarding it as murder of fetus; feminists, on the other hand, consider the matter as fundamental to a woman’s right to control her own body. Such problems are paradoxical in their nature – as different people hold different views from various aspects on a problem, but debate over them can always push the reform of the laws as well as the legal system.
In the final analysis, although it is sometimes hard to draw a clear line between just laws and unjust laws, most people would naturally adhere to just laws to keep the society in good order and respond with outrage to unjust laws which violate the common moral standards. For the laws related to controversial issues, we can continuously reform the legal system to make them more acceptable for the majority.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 255, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'anyone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'violates'.
Suggestion: violates
...ntry, it is illegal to do so and anyone violating it might be fined or jailed. This is be...
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Line 5, column 439, Rule ID: EQUALLY_AS[1]
Message: Don't say 'equally as'. You can use either 'equally' or 'as' on its own. When comparing two nouns, use 'just as'.
Suggestion: equally; as; just as
... some Islamic countries are not treated equally as men. They have very little freedom and ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, if, may, regarding, so, then, therefore, well, while, for example, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2658.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 534.0 442.535393258 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97752808989 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80712388197 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71778530084 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544943820225 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 845.1 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 73.0878010797 60.3974514979 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.6 118.986275619 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8 23.4991977007 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.06666666667 5.21951772744 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 17.0 5.13820224719 331% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186771133217 0.243740707755 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0383623504484 0.0831039109588 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0469734111346 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110086691097 0.150359130593 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0534614758319 0.0667264976115 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.1392134831 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 149.0 100.480337079 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 11.8971910112 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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