Issues that I will base my argument on are the important questions of Truth, Justice, Death and State Law. ... Socrates states the importance of standing by his previous reasoning (no unjust acts). He believes it is his social duty to accept his punishment, be it unjust or just. ... For Socrates, the law is always distinguished from brute force. ... We are born into a society and by remaining in it, according to Socrates, we implicitly agree to obey its laws. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Nearly every society will have two different internal law codes, that of what is "just" and what is "unjust." ... Nearly every society has two types of internal laws: just and unjust. In "Ordinary Men," the execution of the Jews was clearly unjust, however, we consider these acts to be immoral because our internal law of justice tells us that it is wrong to harm somebody without cause. ... The difference between their time and the culture around them and ours allows us to clearly define such action as unjust and to abhor them. ... On the other hand, we can see now that, morally, the discrimi...

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The world is such an unjust and despairing place, if no such group is created, everyone will be too discouraged to take real action. ... This is because what is required to create selfless patriotism is an attachment, or love for country that is so intense, that it is difficult to see its' community as being unjust. ... It is possible that an individual statesman can be moved by their conscious to want to act just in reference to something unjust that their state is doing. ... They think of themselves as law-abiding and contributing members of society. ...

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Therefore any restraint on their liberty by the state, in the form of laws, needs to be justified. ... He stated that it was revenge for a Muslim killing his pregnant wife, sister-in-law and her baby. ... If we tolerate minority groups which disobey laws, how much more will we tolerate? ... However as a democracy unjust laws can be passed, which liberals will not accept. ... The law introduced stated that one could not cover their face in public. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Through speech, men develop a common moral determination for what is just and unjust, and naturally form political societies in the acquisition of virtue. ... He describes speech as, "a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state" (Politics Book I.ii). ... Although Aristotle recognizes that political societies and statesmen may face threats from foreign and domestic forces, his political societies are founded on a group of citizen's mutual...

• Word Count: 1841
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Traveling as far back as the very first traces of civilization, there was law to establish order among the people. In Mesopotamia lived a man named Hammurabi who established the law of the land. ... The reasons why it is so hard to govern people with the absence of religion is because there is no one to determine what is indeed right from wrong, just from unjust, and moral from immoral. ... This is an error that will be corrected as future religions and laws are created. ... Similarly Hammurabi feels that because he is a representative of God that these laws do not apply to him, giving hi...

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Could our government's laws be ethically wrong? ... If the government were morally wrong, why would we follow some the standards that seem unjust. Why do we constantly follow the government's laws since a young age if they are tainted with possible corruption? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Unjust, a passage from the Koran, the Islamic scripture, also tells us that we should follow the law of the Creator or be punished. ... These practical laws are those which are logical, as he puts it, a categorical imperative. These imperative laws are those which apply to most circumstances and are a fix all. The other imperative is that law which must be determined based upon the circumstance. ... I think that he believes in universal laws which exceed all others for all people. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Kant argues that in subjecting oneself to law, agents voluntarily limit their own freedom but freely chooses the limitation. ... Without the power to challenge law, whether moral or political, an agent must adhere to unjust regimes, immoral community standards or harsh civil codes. ... Political laws, by definition, limit freedom of action while moral laws, by definition, limit freedom of thought and action subversively. The essence of the Kantian ethic resides in universal law because it would be illogical for a universal law to be rejected. ... While it is quite obvious that Kant argues seve...

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The system attempts to make a statement about whether an action is moral or immoral, just or unjust, often with the goal is for the vast majority, ideally everybody, to conform to a given moral theory so that the best, most ethically sound world would come into existence. ... This theory must include some form of natural law to govern the natural rights that a person might inherently have and be able to therefor express to some degree. ... When a person has given consent to be subjected to a series of restrictions, such as a government or other system of rules or laws, they agree that they wi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In recent months corporate America has found itself placed under the microscope of scrutiny and interrogation in regards to their chosen behaviors surrounding selected accounting practices and ethical standards regarding violations opposed to federal accounting laws enforced by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). The laws that encapsulate securities are not new to our business culture, they have been around since the Stock Market Crash of 1929, but as with anything, they have evolved though the years to stay congruent with modern-day norms and values. ... "Most insider trading is illeg...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

In addition to the final act of the lottery itself, immorality is also seen when Tess attempts to offer her daughter and son-in law as an addition to the drawing of papers, all to lesson her own chance of being chosen. ... When the evils of the lottery are in reach to her family, Tess is adamant in renouncing the evils of it and how unjust it is to her. ...

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To Pray or Not to Pray "The trend of taking God and moral teaching out of schools is a diabolical scheme," declared the Reverend Billy Graham soon after the Engel versus Vitale and Schempp verdict (Haas 30). The debate over the separation of church and state had been swirling through courtrooms ...

• Word Count: 1973
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• Grade Level: High School