Is breaking the law appropriate under any circumstances? explain?

Question

I would like to understand the situation of breaking the law is appropriate under any circumstances.

Answer 1

Well, this is something you cannot tell the cops because they would shoot you.

In the XIX century selling human beings was perfectly legal. I don't feel obliged to obey that law if it were still active

Answer 2

Yes. If you are shipwrecked and swim ashore on a private island with the absentee owners absent, and to survive break into the house and take only the food needed to survive and call the coast guard, you are breaking the law but have a legal defense.

On the other hand, you are responsible to pay for the broken window, the food, the phone call, and any rain damage etc caused by the broken window if you don't block it off before you leave.

And there is no excuse for taking the mink coat, jewelry or television set.

Answer 3

There is a social contract by which our government has the duty to protect its citizens against foreign and domestic enemies, invasion, crime, starvation, and all other physical and economic dangers in order to assure its citizens are prosperous and free.

As citizens, we agree to obey the law, pay our taxes, be conscripted into the military if needed and to support and not subvert our lawful government.

So in a perfect universe, everyone would be so happy and secure and prosperous and the law so wise that no one would ever break it.

However, when you are working with an imperfect universe, imperfect compliance and application of laws is a fact of life.

Answer 4

This is an interesting question. The short answer is, we should obey the law and must in order to have an orderly society.

The problem is that our government is making so many laws, regulations and enacting municipal codes that almost anyone can be deemed a criminal for something (of course, some things are criminal code and some are civil code).

There are obviously some things that we should always enforce such as murder, assault, theft, immigration law, etc.

Things such as watering bans, seatbelt laws, and other non-sensical items.......well.......... you determine their legitimate purpose.

As a nation we need to return many powers the federal government currently has back to the individual states and we need to limit the control government is taking on all levels.

Answer 5

In the United States? NO.

Lets take the ultimate crime as an example: Murder.

Murder is illegal (obviously).

However, you can legally kill someone in two specific instances: self defense, or defense of another. So while it may seem to the layman that you are breaking the law by killing an aggressor, really you are not. The law is pretty thorough in the US and, of course, we have the courts and a jury of our peers to back us up.

There are other problems with our justice system that I have, but I do believe our LAWS cover right & wrong pretty thoroughly.

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in Sexy Mama's example, while she is TECHNICALLY breaking the law, no jury on the planet would convict her, which is EXACTLY why we have a court & jury system: so that common sense may prevail... (the OJ Simpson case not withstanding)

[sidebar: sexy mama had no INTENT to break the basic speed law so it could be argued that she never technically broke the law in the first place.]

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tlb - still lmao

Answer 6

Unbelievable but true, after a bucks night of drinking a few of us whent down to the peir to continue drinking, some of us ended up in the water, swimming in the harbour. It was just on dawn, all of a sudden people started screaming from the peir and a shark surfaced, I swear this is true ! We swam to a yaught moared nearby as you couldn't climb up the pier, I had actually cut my hands and legs on the barnacles trying. We all made it out, the alarm whent of on the boat, security was patrolling. police were called, as it was a restricted area we were charged with "unlawfull entry", but i would rather wear the charge than be eaten or mauled by a shark. The boat was the "young Endevour", place Voyagers Cove, Sydney Harbour.

Answer 7

Martin Luther King wrote that there are two kinds of laws, civil (manmade) and moral, and that when they conflict, one should obey the moral law, i. e. break the civl law, but only with the full expectation of suffeing the civil penalty.

Answer 8

If your wife is in labor, or your children in a life-threatening situation where you can save them, it is ok to speed in your car.

If your family is starving to death, it may not be "ok" but is completely understandable to steal a loaf of bread.

If a psycho breaks into my home intent on harming myself or my children, he can expect to be killed, and, I find that appropriate.

If a child is murdered, it SHOULD BE legal for the family to do what they wish with the murderer.

Answer 9

There are plenty of good reasons to break the law. Speeding to get your dying child to the emergency room, for instance. Any time it's an issue of life or death, it's usually justifiable to break most laws.

Answer 10

Civil disobedience to protest unjust laws is entirely appropriate IF the perpetrator accepts the statutory punishment.