Distinction Between Just Law And Unjust Law
What is the distinction between a just law and an unjust law? To me the answer is evident, and I have a hard time believing that anyone couldn’t easily know the distinction or disagree with the distinction that Martin Luther King Jr. makes during his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” That “a just law is a man-made code that’s squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law” (533). At its very basic definition, just laws protect the people and unjust laws hurt the people. Unjust laws and unjust execution of just laws is sadly a part our societies past and present. The men and women who create our laws are not always perfect. Some laws have evil intentions when being created, and some
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I can understand, maybe, not agreeing with or liking a group of people, but just to leave it at that. You don’t like them, so just stay away from them and leave well enough alone. It is a principle I teach my own children about other individual children or people they may meet and dislike in their life and a principle I wish the rest of the world would have. Sadly, the truth is, it doesn’t, and some of the people in these large groups have the power to create laws, with support, that directly affect the other group of people negatively. Just as we have seen with slavery, segregation, the women’s right to vote, and marriage equality, and this is just a small few that exist today or have existed in not only our nation’s past, but our world’s past as …show more content…
To practice our right of civil disobedience to protect each other when the other is not being protected by their government and those who should be protecting them. For if we do not, we could potentially see to the atrocities that were experienced in Germany during the Holocaust happen again. For that was an unjust law that was allowed to go to horrifying measures. Martin Luther King Jr. is absolutely correct when he states that the biggest threat to progress are those who prefer negative peace (534) and are complacent to the injustices they see around them. We must not be
I can understand, maybe, not agreeing with or liking a group of people, but just to leave it at that. You don’t like them, so just stay away from them and leave well enough alone. It is a principle I teach my own children about other individual children or people they may meet and dislike in their life and a principle I wish the rest of the world would have. Sadly, the truth is, it doesn’t, and some of the people in these large groups have the power to create laws, with support, that directly affect the other group of people negatively. Just as we have seen with slavery, segregation, the women’s right to vote, and marriage equality, and this is just a small few that exist today or have existed in not only our nation’s past, but our world’s past as …show more content…
To practice our right of civil disobedience to protect each other when the other is not being protected by their government and those who should be protecting them. For if we do not, we could potentially see to the atrocities that were experienced in Germany during the Holocaust happen again. For that was an unjust law that was allowed to go to horrifying measures. Martin Luther King Jr. is absolutely correct when he states that the biggest threat to progress are those who prefer negative peace (534) and are complacent to the injustices they see around them. We must not be