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.
In asserting that individuals should obey the just laws and disobey or resist the unjust law, the speaker failed to acknowledge the complexity inherent in the above statement as would be reveled in the essay. Notwithstanding, in sharp contrast to what the statement said, I believe laws at all times ought to be respected. For this essay, I assumed the word “laws” to mean the law governing a society.
Firstly, can a law be truly unjust? I sincerely doubt it because of the rigorous process undergone before an idea is passed into a law. In societies, the legislative arm consisting of all the persons representing each constituency seat over and over again over an idea to deliberate if it should be passed into law. After which election is undertaken and the side supported by the majority, determines the idea should be passed into law or not. If all this consideration is undertaken before a law is passed, then, it can be inferred, that most law of the land is just. Otherwise, it won’t be passed. Hence, logically and in reality, it won’t be erroneous to say that laws can’t be unjust.
Secondly, what most people look at as unjust law are simply laws that didn’t go down well with them. Possibly because of sentiments such as political sentiments, religious sentiments, etc. in these cases it would be erroneous to say that those laws are un just merely because you are biased. For instance, let’s assume a hypothetical society that approves predetermination of the sex of a baby. Some religious people believes that it a taboo for the sex of a baby to be determined via scanning before delivery, because for them, you are trying to uncover what their maker has kept secret. Assuming the nurse who is meant to administer these scans in the hospital is of that religious group, chances are that she would object to it and call it unjust to her. Who is it unjust to, she or the person who wants to be scanned? Obviously, her.
However, people from another school of thought might argue that some laws aren’t considered unjust out of mere
sentiments. They are unjust because people in the authority have deliberately decided to make it as such. Take for example in a society ruled by a dictator who wakes in the morning and increase tax rate by 50% without consulting the legislative arm because of his selfish interest. Won’t it be good people disobey rather than give in to such a huge demand? While I acknowledge that situations like this can pop up a times, I want to state clearly that it shouldn’t be mistaken to a law because it was never one. It is just a mere demand from the leader and not a law. Hence if disobeyed it is understandable.
In conclusion, some just laws are considered unjust for some people out of sentiments whereas some of the so called unjust laws can be fully accepted by some other persons. However, since whatever idea that is passed into a law is considered just by majority of the people in that society, it ought to be adopted and respected. Because by so doing does a society progress.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 542 350
No. of Characters: 2431 1500
No. of Different Words: 240 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.825 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.485 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.643 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 162 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.074 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.51 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.519 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.275 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.465 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.135 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o wants to be scanned? Obviously, her. However, people from another school of t...
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Line 7, column 116, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ren't considered unjust out of mere sentiments. They are unjust because peop...
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Line 8, column 420, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a time' or simply 'times'?
Suggestion: a time; times
...ge that situations like this can pop up a times, I want to state clearly that it should...
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Line 8, column 579, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...e demand from the leader and not a law. Hence if disobeyed it is understandable. I...
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Line 10, column 95, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...r some people out of sentiments whereas some of the so called unjust laws can be fully acce...
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Discourse Markers used:
['first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'whereas', 'while', 'for example', 'for instance', 'in conclusion', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.187301587302 0.240241500013 78% => OK
Verbs: 0.18253968254 0.157235817809 116% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0571428571429 0.0880659088768 65% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0507936507937 0.0497285424764 102% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0539682539683 0.0444667217837 121% => OK
Prepositions: 0.139682539683 0.12292977631 114% => OK
Participles: 0.052380952381 0.0406280797675 129% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.86735644561 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0301587301587 0.030933414821 97% => OK
Particles: 0.0031746031746 0.0016655270985 191% => OK
Determiners: 0.101587301587 0.0997080785238 102% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0222222222222 0.0249443105267 89% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0174603174603 0.0148568991511 118% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3091.0 2732.02544248 113% => OK
No of words: 536.0 452.878318584 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.76679104478 6.0361032391 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81161862636 4.58838876751 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.324626865672 0.366273622748 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.244402985075 0.280924506359 87% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.173507462687 0.200843997647 86% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.128731343284 0.132149295362 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86735644561 2.79330140395 103% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 219.290929204 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473880597015 0.48968727796 97% => OK
Word variations: 55.9626907171 55.4138127331 101% => OK
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6194690265 136% => OK
Sentence length: 19.1428571429 23.380412469 82% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.673067137 59.4972553346 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.392857143 141.124799967 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1428571429 23.380412469 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.607142857143 0.674092028746 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.21349557522 96% => OK
Readability: 43.5831556503 51.4728631049 85% => OK
Elegance: 1.32044198895 1.64882698954 80% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.364412975319 0.391690518653 93% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.121373524256 0.123202303941 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0997607083244 0.077325440228 129% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.479607659962 0.547984918172 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.202046793301 0.149214159877 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124273315826 0.161403998019 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0929059222626 0.0892212321368 104% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.266097410536 0.385218514788 69% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.10778086073 0.0692045440612 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.229873883753 0.275328986314 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109419688208 0.0653680567796 167% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.30420353982 226% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88274336283 143% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 7.22455752212 125% => OK
Negative topic words: 11.0 3.66592920354 300% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 23.0 13.5995575221 169% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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