Is it ALWAYS wrong to break ANY law?

Question

I'm NOT asking "Should you not suffer the consequences of breaking a law, whether you feel that it is right or wrong?"

10 points to whoever can give me the best example of when it's RIGHT to break a law.

Answer 1

If the law compels you to do somethng immoral, it is not only your right but your duty to break the law. One example of this was the requirement of the Nazi government that everyone turn Jews over to the Nazis. Some people hid Jews in their homes in order to help save them from Nazi torture or death.
They did this at their own peril, they could have been sent to prison or even executed for doing so.

Answer 2

Civil Disobedience (law breaking)is rooted in the notion that as a last resort the populace in a democracy can and will "override" their elected representatives (eminently and unavoidably corruptible because we concentrate power in their hands) by defying bad laws...See Prohibition as a glaring example and marijuana use today as well.
Thomas Jefferson addressed this very subject also. This principle is also embodied in that bugaboo of judges and prosecutors, jury nullification wherein a law in a particular instance is nullified in the greater interest of justice....yes Matilda law and justice are not usually all that closely related....justice is usually a by-product of law enforcement tho not often.
No It is not always wrong to break any law....such a statement precludes thought and compassion and thus justice. One could say that breaking the law actually strengthens legal systems as it is a form of feedback regarding the efficacy and reach of that system and its approach to solving or controlling social ills.

Answer 3

well we wouldn't have a country called United States of America if the founding fathers hadn't broken the law.
so yes, i think that laws are meant to be broken....it says so in the constitution that if the government isn't doing the right thing for the people, then people have the right to over throw the government which was created by our founding fathers. and our generation is raised to think that there is nothing above the law but thats wrong because people are above the law as long as majority of the people are suffering from it.

Answer 4

I often drive to work at very early hours of the day (0400 -0430). Often I get stopped at an intersection wherein I'm sitting waiting for a left hand turn signal. I am headed north, and there is no traffic headed east or west, and nobody headed south. Visibility is better than a quarter of a mile, I am not going to be surprised by anyone. It is inane that I am sitting at this light at four in the morning with nobody around. By yielding at the light and making sure there is absolutely no cross traffic, and then running the light, I am obeying the spirit of the law (if you stop at a red ligtht, you wont be in ac accident) but by disobaying the LETTER of the law, I could get a ticket. I feel that my actions of running the red arrow would be jsutified.

Answer 5

It's only right to break the law if it does good to the people. I don't have any example for this but, it's an idea.

Answer 6

No it isn't always wrong to break any law. If you jay-walked across the road to save someone who was being mugged and then broke the speed limit driving to the hospital to save their life, I hope you wouldn't get charged. Similarly, I think it would be right to break into a pharmacy if it was to save someone's life. If a friend had told you he was about to commit suicide, it would be right to do a break and enter into his apartment to save him.
Also if you are living in a facist country which doesn't apply now but could in the future, it would be right to break many laws. For example, Germans who broke laws to save Jews were morally right.

Answer 7

Its ok to break the law sometimes, for example Martin Luther King and others broke many laws (the sit ins and other things).

Answer 8

After a 20 years of marraige. My wife divorced me and broke contact immediately. I wrote a letter asking why? she got a protection order. I wrote three more letters asking her to forgive me and apologized. I was sent to County Jail each time! What Gives?

She broke into my apartment twice and hit my car with her truck, she stole my mail, so I didn't make it to our divorce hearing date. I never called the police on her!

What made her so wicked. did I deserve what happened to me?

Writing those passive letters asking for an explanation was right to break the law! I needed and have a right to an answer!

Will S

Answer 9

Yes it is wrong to break the law,, It's made for our protection, some laws are WAY outdated and Im sure those are the ones in question, but was put in effect because it needed to be at that time.
www.interlinet/~Goofy-Laws.html

Answer 10

When the law compels something that is itself immoral. Say you are a soldier and the law requires you to obey orders but the orders are to march Jews into a gas chamber.