2007-02-26 16:05:15 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Depends on whose morals and whose idea of ill logic.
Follow laws except...
Any law made by any group or person that condones violence to others or permanent destruction of precious or life sustaining things should NOT be obeyed.
Slavery? Legal in the US.
Illegal to harbor a run away.
Circumcising of women; would you follow that law if you where born in a country that demanded this? What about the death of your mother if she was raped? What about the the laws that put thousand to death for being a racial or economic minority? Would you serve as a Nazi? "Hunt" Native children? Drown and mutilate those who don't believe in your religion. Have your family put in prison or killed for being "educated". I could go on and on. These are real examples of the flip side to the law....the list is endless.
You probably would not obey these laws, but some people in here obviously would and those same people are the same ones who usually crave power...and make and enforce laws.
2007-02-26 17:03:53 · answer #1 · answered by Sqwrll F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. because society said it was logical and immoral. You are just calling it illogical and immoral from your stand point. Granted I admit there are a lot of laws, an individual should not be the one to decide which is a bad law, since all individuals are flawed. It should be the community who decide what is logical or morally right. A strong well built society would base there law from the centuries of experience with the input of a large community not only of this generation, but multiple generations. Not a whim of the individual. Beside if you decide on you own what is right and wrong, where would it stop. People would be disobeying laws due to there own selfish desires. They would rationalize what they do rather than do what is absolutely right.
2007-02-26 16:19:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes it should be until the illogical or immoral law is repealed...if someone was arrested for a breaking a law, but that person believes that law to be illogical or immoral should that person be exonerated and face no penalty......lets say purely hypothetically that the law that person broke was murder but because that person perhaps isn't playing with a full deck he or she doesn't think the law against murder is logical (you know..because their crazy) but here they are in a court of law saying "It was my best judgment that the law stating that killing someone is illegal was illogical and therefore I shouldn't have to obey that law"
Basically what I'm saying is that all laws must be obeyed and if they are not then the appropriate penalty should be applied. But because we live in a democracy we, as citizens of this country have the right to oppose the law and try to get it repealed if in fact it is illogical or immoral. But, until the time that law is repealed it should be obeyed.
2007-02-26 16:17:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In a democracy, the people should decide (as a whole) what they deem illogical or immoral laws and do away with them. Individuals shouldn't be allowed to pick and choose which laws they want to follow. Each person has a different opinion of what is and isn't "moral" therefore, we vote as a society about what we deem appropriate. If we let everyone pick and choose what laws to follow, we would have people choosing to molest children, rape women, kill people...the list goes on.
2007-02-26 16:17:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You should follow illogical and immoral laws up until the point the government as a whole becomes immoral (like a dictatorship), then it is your right to overthrow it.
2007-02-26 16:12:44 · answer #5 · answered by brian 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It depends on the law and how harmful it is. If the law has little impact, then there's nothing wrong with obeying it. But if the law is illogical, immoral, and actually damaging to society, it should NOT be obeyed.
2007-02-26 16:10:02 · answer #6 · answered by bdunn91 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No. This country was founded on the principles of civil disobedience. The law used to say a man could own a man, and you could get arrested for saying "putz" in a nightclub. I agree - an unjust law should not be heeded, but the people breaking that law must be ready to deal with the consequences of that disobedience, while fighting for a change.
2007-02-26 16:15:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you don't like a law or think one is immoral or illegal, work to have it changed. If you disobey a legally enacted law, whether you like the law or not you can still be punished for not obeying it.
2007-02-26 16:11:09 · answer #8 · answered by Kye H 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Great question!
I can separate man's laws from God's laws.
The Ten Commandments got shuffled around with and no longer get followed.
Instead, we have mostly useless laws...like abortion and gay rights and a host of insignificant laws enacted by legislators while the rest of us are sleeping.
We live with them, we get them thrown in our faces to obliterate the important issues, and we are sick of them.
The answer to your question is no...don't obey any ridiculous laws that don't make sense to you and your way of living.
The active minority has stolen the spotlight, and the rest of us are just hanging in limbo when important issues that affect our lives should get the attention.
Do what is right for you and as long as it doesn't harm others, don't worry about it.
Illogical and immoral laws should be thrown back to the elected officials for sorting out again...and if need be...again.
2007-02-26 16:07:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Martin Luther King quoted St. Augustine by saying, "An immoral law is no law at all." Are you willing to go to jail for your beliefs? That's what King did.
2007-02-26 16:09:25 · answer #10 · answered by holacarinados 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋