Under what conditions is it morally justified to break the law?
In what sort of cases would you endorse civil disobedience? In your answer, think about 1) how you would define the idea of an unjust or immoral law. Would you agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all'? And 2) what cases (if any) would count in your view as legitimate uses of civil disobedience? For some examples, take a look at the Wikipedia article on civil disobedience.
If a law threatens to block my path in life or any women or Black person, I would be forced to act against it. I believe that if you make a law that is unfair to any race of people is considered is unlawful and how can we follow a law like that. I believe any person making those kind of laws are afraid of the competition, so in order to have less competition they need to add bars that were inappropriate. If a college or med school decided not to accept me or any persons because of their skin color or sex, I would sit on school property everyday with a group of females not making noise or disturbing anyone but just sitting on campus quietly everyday. That is to away to show civil disobiedience that will not hurt anyone or incite riot in anyway. the only law i would be breaking is trespassing.
posted by Esther Dee @ 3:46 PM
1 Comments:
it would be helpful to give a more specific criterion for CD here. MLK is very specific about the conditions for disobeying the law.
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