I agree with acts of civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws and a general distancing from a government that does not take action to correct unjust laws. Philosophically "unjust laws" are "human laws not rooted in eternal and natural law". However this definition given by Aquinas seems too broad and idealistic to me.
I think the best examples are Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and others during the 1960s civil rights movements. They broke laws in a peaceful nonviolent manner to demonstrate that those laws were not just laws in a hope that the laws would be changed. They were willing to pay the full price for breaking the law and they did so.
Considering this I would say that if one determines the law to be unjust and demonstrates civil disobedience in a nonviolent manner and is also willing to pay the full price of breaking the law, then it is more than OK, it is honorable to do so.
Yeah well put. 😀 i think it really is our responsibility to stand up to ANY unjust laws and restrictions being forced on us by dodgy governments.
Too many people today just go along with whatever they are told without question. That's absolutely crazy.
The whole world need a proof of brain, not just Hive.
The standard of morality gets skewed so people go with what the government says. I think Korea has way too many laws . Depending on your lawyer's ability to decipher the law it can mean one thing to one person and another thing to another person.
The problem with having so many laws is that people have a hard time to think for themselves. They don't know the heart of the law which is the reason the law was created or the moral principal behind the law. The result is that when the time of danger or emergency exists they follow procedure and obey orders even if that procedure and those orders are screwed up.
The most obvious example in recent history in Korea is the Sewol ferry... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol. Since that incident people have been more reluctant to follow directions from authority without thinking first.