and personal conscience. Individuals refrain from unjust manners and actions because of the penalty that they could potentially receive. If the penalty for unjust actions were removed‚ then there would be a lot more people partaking in said unjust actions. Unjust
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responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely‚ one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” (382) Just and unjust; right and wrong is the basic skill that everyone have to learn when they were young. People come to school to learn how to follow the laws‚ and it is true that laws are made to protect people and make things fair for everyone. However base on Martin Luther King Jr‚ I recognized not all laws are ethical and just. Arizona’s immigration law is an unjust law and it should be abolish
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Socrates and Glaucon ultimately agree that it is better to be actually just and seemingly unjust than it is to be actually unjust but seemingly just. Their reasons for holding this position are because people just have control over themselves. They are able to maintain dominion over their desires‚ to avoid self indulgence in evil desires‚ and to choose good things. This is something the unjust person loses no matter how just he may seem. Socrates uses the image of a beast to show how injustice causes
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History 25 February 2013 War is unjust War is defined as a conflict battled between two political communities. Although some may say that fighting in a war creates peace and settles problems‚ it truly only causes death‚ brings countries into debt‚ and does not always conclude in what was expected. Many precautions can be taken to prevent opposing forces from advancing into war. Even if there are no other possible ways to approach the problem at hand‚ war is unjust on all levels. The disputes between
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learning the just and unjust speech. Although‚ since Socrates only uses the practical wisdom of philosophy‚ he hinders Strepsiades’s knowledge of knowing the right and wrong. By just applying practical wisdom it adds justice to the unjust speech and does not create a balance for both speeches. Furthermore‚ the weaker speech is considered the unjust speech in the play because it opposes all the theories that the just speech has to say. Moreover‚ in addition to comparing the unjust and just speeches
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Crime and Punishment: How does Hammurabi’s Code translate into modern society? In order to understand crime‚ it’s factors‚ and it’s transcendence through time‚ we must first realize the source of aggression. At some point during human history‚ man turned on himself and began attacking others within his species‚ whether it was a result of a territorial‚ sexual‚ or other type of conflict. However‚ these acts of wrongdoing did not become crimes until they were violating an actual written law. Therefore
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influential ruler‚ he accomplished many things‚ including the reunification of Mesopotamia. His interest in state affairs and his opinion of himself as a "shepard to his people" most likely led to his greatest contribution to Mesopotamian life‚ the Code of Hammurabi. The 282 laws mainly focus on responsibilities of public officials‚ standards for agriculture and commerce‚ expectations for women‚ and regulations of sexual relations. Hammurabi believed that the laws were sent by the gods‚ which explains
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People that are given unjust power begin to rationalize their actions in order to be able stomach being cruel to the target population‚ turning into brutal monsters. On the other hand‚ the oppressed are unable to fight back because their sense of self worth is degraded into nothing. Oppressive unjust laws based on biases very often have negative consequences on the oppressed‚ as well as the oppressors. Unjust laws have very damaging impacts on the targeted population
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I personally think that the death penalty is unjust. Murder is murder no matter who is doing it. So if someone kills someone‚ does that give the judicial system the right to kill someone? In my opinion no‚ because all in all‚ it is still down right murder. I think that that life in prison is torture enough especially when you have people who have been wrongfully convicted of murder. Does the legal system have authorization to take innocent lives? Being that this scale is unbalanced‚ I believe that
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people must voice their concerns and rebel against the government through grassroots movements and protests. Breaking laws that were created to protect the government and its citizens does not have to involve violence. Sometimes we have to break unjust laws that only benefit certain groups and burden others. For example‚ it is acceptable for women to commit illegal activities when the government takes away their right to an abortion‚ invades their medical files‚ and prevents doctors to
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