Unjust Laws

Unjust Laws “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws” (MLK Jr). Everyone has the moral and ethical obligation to disobey unjust laws that are put in place. It comes down to one thing, whether the law is right or wrong. For most humans, the brain is fully developed by the age of 25 according to National Institute of Health, so the creators of laws are well aware of right and wrong. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” King writes, “A just law is a man made code that 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,” (MLK Jr). With that, it is implied that unjust laws should not be followed and that is true, they are against moral laws of the people. If people in the past weren’t brave enough to stand up against unjust laws, the people of America would still be segregated simply by the color of our skin. Also, the European people may have still been getting man slaughtered simply for being of the Jewish ancestry. King used the term “Nazi laws” which can correlate with any unjust law created, the Nazi’s created and enforced a terrible and cruel law that was bound to be broken, no different than any other unjust law. Every human being has “natural rights” given to them the moment they are put into this world. With that “natural right” comes the “moral laws” and “law of God” which was mentioned earlier. The people of the World do have the moral responsibility to disobey any unjust or morally wrong law put into action. All humans were given that right upon birth.