Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and to disobey and resist unjust laws.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Modern nations are established on the laws, and flood of laws both regulate and protect citizens. Retrospective in history, there are unjust laws as many as just laws, and many people’s reactions to unjust laws are somewhat divergent. However, the author strongly asserts that every people have the duty to obey just laws and resist unjust laws. I largely agree with the author’s contentions, and this essay will convey why the author’s claim is cogent and compelling.
Firstly, resistance against unjust laws can remove these malevolent laws and institute new, fair laws. Through the public disobeiance, public can pressure the government to fix unjust and unfair laws, and eventually can make better society. Martin L. King’s the Civil Right Movement can be one example. He resisted prejudiced racial discrimination law, and gained public agreement to remove the law, and finally made more egalitarian America. Similarly, Nelson Mandela’s anti-Apartheid movement also make South Africa government to eradicate racial segregation law. Accordingly, these examples show that disobeyance can make actual transformations for better society.
Admittedly, some people could argue that not every people can actively reject unjust laws, because they are only a weak individual within complex society system. Individuals are weak, and even lethargic to resist powerful regulations. Hypothetically speaking, if one must 12 hours a day for his minimal survival, he cannot concern about justness of the laws. For another example, it is generally shown that people who gain lower incomes are more politically conservative than others. This also shows that not every people can perceive and disobey unjust laws. For these reasons, there might be certain circumstances that people cannot passionately resist unjust laws.
However, the responsibility and the actual behavior is not the same one. Even if one cannot virtually resist unjust laws, it does not necessarily prevent the responsibility of him. For example, in Kantian perspective, every people have responsibility to be moral, but in reality, there always exist people who contravene laws and conduct unmoral behaviors. Furthermore, in democratic social system, all citizens have both right and duty to participate the politics through vote other ways, because public participation is critical and main idea of democracy. Similarly, responsibility for resistance against unjust laws can also be a responsibility for democratic citizen. For these reasons, inaccessibility to the resistance cannot contradict the responsibility of the resistance, and they clearly have responsibility to resist for democratic society.
In conclusion, while some people argue that not every people can resist unjust laws, it is cogent that every people have responsibility to disobey unjust laws, because they can ameliorate their society through this resistance, and this resistance and participation is critical in democratic society.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, similarly, so, while, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 58.6224719101 53% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2561.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 444.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.76801801802 5.05705443957 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1206261494 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490990990991 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 823.5 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.59117977528 119% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 10.0 1.77640449438 563% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.9958173915 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.347826087 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3043478261 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.34782608696 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252757237049 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0832706699838 0.0831039109588 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.05765002165 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159135676422 0.150359130593 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0352529047214 0.0667264976115 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 26.81 48.8420337079 55% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.19 12.1639044944 133% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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