Views differ considerably when it comes to whether a person has a responsibility to obey unjust laws. While some may hold the opinion that every individual in a society should obey every law no matter what the content it has, I strongly assert that the unjust laws are something we definitely need to disobey and resist.
The most important reason for me to hold this argument is that we should put human rights in the first priority. If there is a law which is unjust and may hurt human rights, it is our responsibility to point it out and resist it. Otherwise, the unjustness will go on and might cause irreversible negative consequences continuously.
There is a bloody example in the history of Taiwan. Taiwan was once ruled by a party called KMT after World War II. KMT was a greedy political party which considered its own interest rather than the well-being of the society. From 1947 to 1987, KMT implemented martial law in Taiwan. There were lots of unreasonable laws during the martial law period and many innocent people were killed for some ridiculous reasons. After tens of years, the bloody history is still one of the most miserable memories for Taiwanese people. At that time, there were many chances for low-level government officials and policemen to insist on their own conscience and resist the unjust laws. However, no one had the courage to fight for the justice and unfeelingly let the tragedy going on. Personally, I believe that the fate of Taiwan could have been rewritten and a better political environment could be expected if someone bravely stands up to disobey and resist the unjust laws during the bloody period. Therefore, people have the responsibility to disobey unjust law since in that case, the society will have more chances to introspect.
The second reason is about caring for people who are the economic weaknesses. Some people in society don't have equal opportunity as normal citizens since they don't have enough economic support. In such cases, people are unable to have chances for good education and thus have lower possibilities to be aware of the unjust laws happen on them. If other people just ignore the unjustness and care only about their own lives, the rights of those poor people would probably be hurt to some extent. As a result, no matter the law really affects an individual or not, it is a duty for him to take care of the weakness if he has the power and ability to be aware of the injustice.
Though some people who hold different opinion may think that the society will be messed up if everyone makes their own judgment and obeys the laws they do not like, however, I believe that this situation can be prevented by education. If the kids are well-educated, they can make a good judgment to distinguish whether a law is just or not.
In conclusion, given the importance of human right and caring for the weakness, I assert that every individual in a society has a responsibility to disobey and resist unjust laws.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, really, second, so, still, therefore, thus, well, while, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2476.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 517.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78916827853 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76839952204 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64969856189 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477756286267 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 801.9 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.3105969508 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.652173913 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4782608696 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.69565217391 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.242881135731 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0695781701658 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0672406709492 0.0758088955206 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150087171623 0.150359130593 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.062419444349 0.0667264976115 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 12.1639044944 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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