right or wrong?

Question

under what circumstances, if any, is one justified in diobeying the law?

Answer 1

If life or limb is in peril.

For the protection of someone else.

Protection of property.

A balancing test must be used to weigh the need for breaking the law, versus the possible repercussions.

However, some laws are so patently unfair that breaking them could be justified...However, I would never advocate that course of action.

Answer 2

Certain emergency circumstances come to mind. For instance, you are walking past a house and notice it is on fire. You run to the door and try to alert the occupants but no one answers, you look through the window and see an unconscious person on the floor. You kick open the door and pull the person out of the burning house.

Kicking open the door is Breaking and Entering, a criminal act. I doubt if you would be charged with any crime.

If you are referring to Civil Disobedience as a protest against some perceived social injustice. That can be a slippery slope. Dr. King and his supporters committed a number of illegal acts while conducting their protests. History has commended them for raising the consciousness of the country and making this a more fair society. Islamic fundamentalists are cutting the heads off people to promote their particular brand of religious justice. Can this be justified in anyway?

Where are you going to draw the line? Which law will you choose to disobey? It is one thing to block a street and inconvenience people, but quite another to strap a bomb to some brainwashed kid and send him into a crowd of innocents to murder as many as he can.

Answer 3

There can be a lot of circumstances under which you can break the law. You can justify it but that doesn't mean anyone will actually believe you or listen to you. It might seem okay at the moment to do so but, it might not to other people. You have to consider all aspects before you do anything.

Answer 4

Laws are made by the human being to make better systems of ruling the community for the overall betterment of the people. But man-made laws may change time to time as per needs and circumstances.

But it is to remember that all laws are made up on the base of evidences and logics; ambiguous, exceptional and abstract issues are not included with any law. However, to give release to these ambiguous issues, each laws and bylaws has some gaps through which the lawyers enter and try to bring out the desired output from any legal issue.

So, no law has any specific figure. You can handle any law with thousands of co-related laws in favor or disfavor of that law and bring out any result based on your logics, evidences and presentation strategies.

Answer 5

It would depend on the law. It is common practice in CA to not pull over for a police officer in a dark secluded area no matter how much he complains. In addition, you don't have to lower your window beyond handing him your license and reg. Other than that, I cannot think of a good reason to disobey the law. Good question!!

Answer 6

If it is a life or death situation one is justified in disobeying the law. Also if the law is unrealistic to keep (but just don't get caught).

Answer 7

Every time there is conflict between conscience and instructions from government - go with the personal moral imperative.

Remain a humane actor in a world of challenges to humanity.
Keep plenty of ammo nearby also.

Answer 8

How many times we going to ask this question?

Answer 9

is that the same question repeatedly?