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.
Every sovereign nation on Earth is governed by a set of laws formulated and agreed upon by the nation’s ruling class. A nation without laws is one characterised by chaos. Ultimately, for any nation to experience tranquillity, development and progress, the activities of its citizens must be subjected to laws that will help achieve the aforementioned. While we can all agree that some laws do become obsolete and need to be abolished or some become archaic and need to amended, I disagree that individuals in a society has a responsibility to obey and disobey laws on the basis that such laws are either just or unjust. In the following paragraphs, I will be explaining why I disagree with the claim.
Firstly, laws are most times not decided by an individual. In a democratic nation, laws are often subjected to debates and polls before they can be accepted as laws. These debates often times occur amongst the finest brains a nation has to offer. It is for this reason amongst others that one can safely say that for a law to be passed it is most likely just. Seeing the process that laws undergo before becoming laws, it is wrong to bestow upon an individual whose level of education, reasoning and personal prejudice is unknown the responsibility to decide whether a law is just and unjust. Take for example, a nation where it is permitted by law that a woman can abort a pregnancy in some instances. A medical practitioner can decide to deny a woman the right to abort a pregnancy simply because this medical practitioner thinks that abortion is unjust or is of the religious view that abortion is an immoral act without taking into consideration the woman’s reason(s) for wanting an abortion despite being backed by the law.
Furthermore, if the individuals in a society are given the responsibility of obeying laws based on their decision that they are right or wrong, this would most likely lead to a situation where people will completely disregard some laws and excuse their disobedience based on the reasoning that they think such laws are unjust. During the heat of the Covid-19 pandemic, with lockdown and various restrictions and laws put in place to ensure the safety of the citizens. Among such laws was the law to always ensure that a face mask is used at all times whenever you are in a public space. Some people then in their own opinion started a movement propagating a notion that face masks are an inconvenience, and that they do not necessarily prevent the spread of the coronavirus. If given the responsibility to obey or disobey a law based on the reason that they think it is just on unjust, these set of people will most likely disobey the law to use facemasks in public spaces. Thereby compromising the safety of other citizens and undermining the effort of the government to control the spread of the corona virus.
Lastly, I know that some might be of the opinion that not all laws are just. They would most likely bring up the case that slavery was once considered just and even legal. While this is true, it still doesn’t excuse the claim that individual should obey laws based on their discretion. There is a process to recall laws, abolish and even amend laws. As the society continues to evolve, some laws will be subjected to change. The individuals of a society reserve the right to call for the abolition or amendment of certain laws. This is a more logical way to accept and obey laws that are considered just rather than leaving an individual to make such decision. Let it be known that with absolute power comes absolute corruption. Giving individuals the responsibility to obey law based at their discretion of it being just or unjust will most likely result in chaos.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, if, lastly, so, still, then, while, as to, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.5258426966 195% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 25.0 11.3162921348 221% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3079.0 2235.4752809 138% => OK
No of words: 647.0 442.535393258 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.75888717156 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.04343084457 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74617404305 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 215.323595506 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.420401854714 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1002.6 704.065955056 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.4686712007 60.3974514979 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.037037037 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.962962963 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.07407407407 5.21951772744 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.323217540592 0.243740707755 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0956479452621 0.0831039109588 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0702793224663 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223033013074 0.150359130593 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0559715640137 0.0667264976115 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 133.0 100.480337079 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.