Conscience saves Souls
Man makes mistakes, man-made law might be a product of mistakes. Disobey the law when your conscience tells you the law is unjust and against humanity. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes, “an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law” (King). Authorities always create the unjust law and cover them with beautiful lies to fake them as just laws, then trick the people to obey them. The obedience of unjust laws participated significantly in the historical tragedies. From ancient Greek to Germany’s Nazi period to 1880s America, the unjust laws always exist, and the majority always conform. Creon the King of Thebes created law that nobody can bury the body of Polyneices. The Nuremberg laws, the …show more content…
Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.” (King) Martin Luther King is saying that the segregation laws degrades the colored people which makes the laws unjust. The laws split and classify the citizens into two groups, and define one group has lower social status and fewer rights than the other. When the minority group stand out the protest for their rights in Birmingham, the government acted very aggressively. Even though the majority are in charge, no one should conform the inequallity. “If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.” King said in his Speech. Indeed, if a man stays obey and silent all the time, never speaks out for any existing unjust situation, he’s soul, his conscience and himself are dead already. If a man has to conform to all the man-made rules in order to fit in the majority, then he’s merely a poor henchman.
Conscience, disobedience and justice are always connected, like some triangular equation. Our society needs disobedience to break and reform the unjust law. We need heroes like Martin Luther King and Antigone to stand out for justice. They’re honorable man and woman. Conscience is vary yet we wouldn’t be an individual human being without our own individual
Man makes mistakes, man-made law might be a product of mistakes. Disobey the law when your conscience tells you the law is unjust and against humanity. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes, “an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law” (King). Authorities always create the unjust law and cover them with beautiful lies to fake them as just laws, then trick the people to obey them. The obedience of unjust laws participated significantly in the historical tragedies. From ancient Greek to Germany’s Nazi period to 1880s America, the unjust laws always exist, and the majority always conform. Creon the King of Thebes created law that nobody can bury the body of Polyneices. The Nuremberg laws, the …show more content…
Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.” (King) Martin Luther King is saying that the segregation laws degrades the colored people which makes the laws unjust. The laws split and classify the citizens into two groups, and define one group has lower social status and fewer rights than the other. When the minority group stand out the protest for their rights in Birmingham, the government acted very aggressively. Even though the majority are in charge, no one should conform the inequallity. “If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.” King said in his Speech. Indeed, if a man stays obey and silent all the time, never speaks out for any existing unjust situation, he’s soul, his conscience and himself are dead already. If a man has to conform to all the man-made rules in order to fit in the majority, then he’s merely a poor henchman.
Conscience, disobedience and justice are always connected, like some triangular equation. Our society needs disobedience to break and reform the unjust law. We need heroes like Martin Luther King and Antigone to stand out for justice. They’re honorable man and woman. Conscience is vary yet we wouldn’t be an individual human being without our own individual