Unjust Laws Exist By Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau asks, in his essay, “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?” (184) The answer will depend on which side of the law or the laws you are on, minority or majority. When the laws are made by the majority the laws can’t all be just, expect for the majority that wanted it. Should the wise minority be able to disobey laws that were created by the majority?
Obeying every law is hard but even harder is to obey an unjust law that goes against our morals. If the “wise minority,” the people that break the unjust law because it’s unjust, disobeyed every law that was unjust it could change that law and others
Obeying every law is hard but even harder is to obey an unjust law that goes against our morals. If the “wise minority,” the people that break the unjust law because it’s unjust, disobeyed every law that was unjust it could change that law and others