Sometimes justice mandates that the law be broken. Justice and the law are different. However, justice is supposed to be a sort of vengeance, to avenge an amoral action. Often the law in enforcing morality. It could just be me but, if you murder a man to avenge a murder, then soon the entire world is dead. to quote the old saying “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and soon the whole world is going around blind.” Ignoring all the metaphors for a moment, justice and the law both defend morality, therefore if you break the law, you are more likely to be on the wrong end of justice if you break the law for any reason.
I have to disagree with what you have stated. I agree in the sense that violence is certainly not the solution for every problem, but yet again almost all large scale/worldly problems are solved by war. I think that justice is greater than abiding by the law if serving justice is not for a worthy cause.
ReplyDeleteYou said that almost all problems are solved by war. Is the war really a solution or something to force people to come up with one? Dose whatever justice you find in committing war atrocities out way what you could find in peace? Is it true justice?
DeleteI disagree with Jonah when he says that law is more important. If a powerful figure, let’s say a politician, goes out of the law to do some dirty deed to their own gain, like murdering competition, then a less powerful citizen with no power who wants to avenge their friend’s death is forced to break the law, as a politician has more power and trust than the average citizen.
ReplyDeleteYou are forgetting that murder is a high crime in the United States, and if the politician can be proved beyond reasonable doubt that they murdered some one then they would receive legal justice. One example of this not with murder, but with other crimes is Watergate. President Nixon had people spied on to gain ammunition for his reflection campaign.
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