Is it just to break an unjust law?
It is just to break an unjust law if it is morally wrong. Doing it in your own belief demonstrates the power behind the act to break an unjust law. Laws that may be appealing to the government might not be appealing to people who oppose them. Doing what's morally right is better than following an unjust law. Standing up to unjust laws shows moxie. I support breaking an unjust law because it takes real guts to actually do it. Three examples of this can be found in Socrates’s Crito, Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes, Henry Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience.
In Crito there are two men speaking to each other, Crito and Socrates. The place where they are in is a prison in Athens. Socrates, a wise philosopher is imprisoned due to his involvement in corrupting the youth. Crito comes to visit …show more content…
He talks about how he broke the law, because he thought it was immoral and unethical. “Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?” (Civil Disobedience pg.1 part 2 for 3). He is asking the audience if they should or should not follow unjust laws anymore. “He states that unjust laws do exist because we as humans fail to see that. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.” (Civil Disobedience pg.1 part 2 of 3). These three texts represent different perspectives on breaking unjust laws. Breaking an unjust law must mean either the person thinks it’s immoral or it’s just ridiculous. It takes a person of Great Spirit and will to accomplish such a feat. Unjust laws are there to test people to see if they would step up to the plate and do something about it. In conclusion, the text that stood out to me was Burial at Thebes because the law was actually
It is just to break an unjust law if it is morally wrong. Doing it in your own belief demonstrates the power behind the act to break an unjust law. Laws that may be appealing to the government might not be appealing to people who oppose them. Doing what's morally right is better than following an unjust law. Standing up to unjust laws shows moxie. I support breaking an unjust law because it takes real guts to actually do it. Three examples of this can be found in Socrates’s Crito, Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes, Henry Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience.
In Crito there are two men speaking to each other, Crito and Socrates. The place where they are in is a prison in Athens. Socrates, a wise philosopher is imprisoned due to his involvement in corrupting the youth. Crito comes to visit …show more content…
He talks about how he broke the law, because he thought it was immoral and unethical. “Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?” (Civil Disobedience pg.1 part 2 for 3). He is asking the audience if they should or should not follow unjust laws anymore. “He states that unjust laws do exist because we as humans fail to see that. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.” (Civil Disobedience pg.1 part 2 of 3). These three texts represent different perspectives on breaking unjust laws. Breaking an unjust law must mean either the person thinks it’s immoral or it’s just ridiculous. It takes a person of Great Spirit and will to accomplish such a feat. Unjust laws are there to test people to see if they would step up to the plate and do something about it. In conclusion, the text that stood out to me was Burial at Thebes because the law was actually