Sometimes breaking unjust laws to be treated equally isn't wrong to do. ... Through his reading he shows that the government is very unjust with its laws and people. He says "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" ... It's true there are laws that are just un-understandable for the government to have. ... King also saw unjust laws that the government wanted to strongly enforce on its decisions to granting equal civil justice to everyone in Birmingham. ...

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Socially Constituted and Socially Defined Law An argument against the idea of Natural Law The idea of natural law has been long debated in the subject of jurisprudence. ... The sovereign is that person who decides right from wrong, and just from unjust. ... There is no such thing as natural law because the sovereign makes the laws. ... If it is this kind of procedure that makes a law, then natural law is not law at all. Natural law theorists will argue that God enforces the natural law. ...

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Glaucon's brother, Adeimantus, backs up his brother's speech by stating that an unjust man with a deceivably just reputation(which is almost always the trait of the perfectly unjust man) is also better than the just man. ... Therefore, if the following is considered true, then unjust men leads to more unjust men, and then what would happen if unjust men ruled the world. ... So therefore in the end, unjust men would lose. ... Unjust men, on the other hand, appreciate neither just men nor other unjust men. ... Real philosophers, however, find that it is in their best interest to gove...

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People in power make laws and the weaker party is supposed to follow those laws... ""(339D) Thus, according to Thrasymachus, justice is "obediance to the laws made by the rulers in the interest of the rulers... In time, people agreed to a sort of crude system of laws that established a system of right and wrong. The laws were, however, self serving to the more powerful. ... If two men, one just and the other unjust, possess a ring that would make them invisible when warn and allow them to do as they please without detection, the two men, both the just and unjust alike, will seize the opport...

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Valid conduct, therefore, can only apply where there is law (89). ... In essence, the content of the law as well as the definition of acting justly or unjustly is arbitrary. ... However, the sharpest difference between the two exists in their creation of the law: why the law exists, what the law entails, and who makes the law. ... This is the reason the law exists. ... This higher power is the highest good, and it defines not only what the law will be, but also who gets to make the laws. ...

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Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.1 In spite of significant improvements of environmental protection by environmental justice activists, over the years many people worldwide still live in unsafe and unhealthy environments. ... The unjust environmental practices predominantly impact the poor and those composed mainly of ethnic, social, and racial minorities. ...

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