If you don’t have the ability to change the law and law is unjust and immoral to you, then is breaking the law still wrong? Let’s consider slavery. A slave has no power to change any laws, and the slave cannot do anything to change the fact that he is a slave. If the slave broke the law and escaped because he feels that slavery is immoral, is that not just? The slave does not have the power to change the law, nor the power to leave and move to a place where he can leave freely; the system is rigged in the master’s favor. In this situation, I believe, that it would be just and moral for the slave to try and escape since that would be the only way for the slave to live a good life. As a slave, he is just living as property with no rights. The only way for the slave to live a just and good life as he sees fit is by escaping. It is only okay to break the law, not if men have wronged you, but the system that is there to uphold justice and morality is corrupt and does not allow you to live
If you don’t have the ability to change the law and law is unjust and immoral to you, then is breaking the law still wrong? Let’s consider slavery. A slave has no power to change any laws, and the slave cannot do anything to change the fact that he is a slave. If the slave broke the law and escaped because he feels that slavery is immoral, is that not just? The slave does not have the power to change the law, nor the power to leave and move to a place where he can leave freely; the system is rigged in the master’s favor. In this situation, I believe, that it would be just and moral for the slave to try and escape since that would be the only way for the slave to live a good life. As a slave, he is just living as property with no rights. The only way for the slave to live a just and good life as he sees fit is by escaping. It is only okay to break the law, not if men have wronged you, but the system that is there to uphold justice and morality is corrupt and does not allow you to live