Aug 31, 2010 2:28:07 PM cite

When law prevent us from getting our RIGHTS

by Maryam

Oct 5, 2009 9:07:28 PM cite

I answer this question in page 66 of my new bilingual philosophy book "Thoughts Upon A Conscience" now available for free download.
Thoughts Upon A Conscience/Pensamientos Sobre Una Consciencia -

by Gonarthouse

May 21, 2008 12:30:40 AM cite

Well it depends on what law and why your breaking it. I like Socrates (From Peaceful Warrior) response. You recognize pleasure vs. price and make a wise decision based on that. Just the same it depends on how necessary breaking the law is and what the law is there for. Why your breaking it vs. what it is there for. And look at he outcome. Understand the benefits and risks of what your doing and what is to come of it.

by LOST

Feb 1, 2007 1:37:50 AM cite

DO YOU SPEAK OF MAN MADE LAWS OR LAWS THAT GOVERN THE UNIVERSE?

by ONE LOVE UNITE!

Oct 18, 2006 1:54:41 AM cite

Breaking the laws created by a community or society may be as important as keeping them. Laws represent an effort to provide a framework of discipline in the lives and affairs of people and the institutions to which people belong. The basis of law created or legislated by humans is subjective . That it is subjective does not mean it lacks a rational explanation, but is does mean value judgements of right or wrong or good or bad are being applied by one group on behalf or contrary to the benefit[s] of the people who will be living according to the law. In these circumstances it appears that humans have a tendency to over regulate their own lives and most especially the liives of others. It is when the law no longer serves the common good; when it has become outdated by changing circumstances over the passage of time, the advancement of technology and knowledge; or, or a new appreciation that different is neither right nor wrong and that different requires no law, that breaking the law may be the only rational choice.

by Mike D

Sep 28, 2006 1:54:28 AM cite

Can a law be created to fit all circumstances all the time? The Bible states " A greater love hath no man than this, to give up his life for another". Suicide is morally wrong and illegal in most civil societies. But to knowingly commit suicide, to take a bullet so that another may live? Wouldn't one deem that a necessary reason to break the law? One must choose for himself whether greater good will come from following the law or breaking the law in each particular circumstance. One must also be prepared to justify and except responsibility for one's own decision.

by Mongo

Sep 15, 2006 4:22:02 AM cite

The necessity to break the law is a question asked in the minds of people daily, blithely accepting the risks entailed in crossing in the middle of a busy street block. The question, however becomes more serious when faced with a challenge, whatever that challenge might be, if which you must choose, sometimes within a very short time, whether the breaking of a law is necessary. What must be remembered is that in breaking any law, there is the very real potential for for consequence, even if you get away with the act, the responsibility still remains yours.

by RedSevenOne

Sep 13, 2006 10:35:26 AM cite

There could be situations when a law need to be broken, and in this case, another law (of emergency) should exist, so the out-of-this-law falls into that law. However, if the whole legislation does not cater for emergency cases, then in this situation, the out-law remains out-of-any-law. For example, if crossing the red-signal is considered an out-law, then this law must have a clause saying that in case of -for example- a dying patient in your car, you can break this law and act upon 'law of emergency' to save the life.

by sharaf

Sep 12, 2006 2:08:08 PM cite

law is done or made just to be broken. The law is some idea you have to follow to live in peace, installed by people that get a lot of money (or have a certain power in society).But they usually make laws for their own benefit.To make "people"happy they say, but at the first step, it is always to make THEM happier. E.G, if nobody had ever killed an other human being, there would'nt be a law saying you can't kill!

by taratjes

Sep 11, 2006 9:27:35 PM cite

There is justice. There is law. When law is best, it closely reflects justice. But law is artificial, and therefore rellects the values and attainments of the law-givers. A law then, is no better than it's creators. Some law is necessary to protect the community. When laws are created by corrupt men, then those laws will most likely also be corrupt and not serve the community justly. Breaking that sort of law will not defile your spirit and may be required to reassert justice.

by Gandolf

Sep 9, 2006 7:35:01 PM cite

When the law is unreasonable! Assuming you can reason well. We all think we can which may lead into chaos of mixed reasoning. Advice: Think it through carefully.

by hatzvi

Sep 9, 2006 3:49:25 PM cite

when law is unlawful, e.g. unjust or against basic rights. but as soon as you break it, you have to accept unlawfulness yourself.

by AvB

Sep 9, 2006 11:55:00 AM cite

Antoschka - Ekaterina Moshaeva: [It mihgt become necessary], when a law becomes obsolete, because laws are made by people, and people can often be mistaken. In recent times they pass a lot of laws, and I come from a country where currency and laws change like gloves in our circus performance, in which a woman puts her hands in pockets and takes out different gloves every time: blue coloured, red or yellow coloured gloves. In our country laws change as quickly. But there are moral, ethical, universal laws which cannot change. There are many absurd laws. As I am a clown, I could make up a whole performance program about false, absolutely stupid or ineffective laws. As a Russian proverb says, “A law is like a pile: you cannot pass through, but you can go around”. Many people use this principle. I think the most important laws are those of our hearts, which means ethical laws. And I think, there should be created such an organization as a world government, a world council, which would create ethical laws, because many of ethical laws helped some civilizations to survive in the past, and there were many state-managed laws which contributed to the destruction of some other civilizations. That is about laws. Instead of three minutes one could speak to this subject three years, or his entire life. A law, which is made by human beings, should be approved by a moral law, which is also made by human beings.

by Antoschka - Ekaterina Moshaeva

Sep 9, 2006 11:55:00 AM cite

Abbas Beydoun:

by Abbas Beydoun

Sep 9, 2006 11:55:00 AM cite

Alvaro Restrepo: I think that if the law is based on illegitimacy, on arbitrariness, on imposition of interests that are threatening human dignity, then I think than this is not a law anymore, I think that then it changes into another concept. Whenever a law protects insane commands, then they can no longer be seen as law and turns out to be an outrage on dignity. And in such cases it is legal, from every point of view, to break the law, the arbitrariness and the illegitimacy.

by Alvaro Restrepo

Sep 9, 2006 11:55:00 AM cite

Ana Lucy Bengochea:

by Ana Lucy Bengochea

Sep 9, 2006 11:55:00 AM cite

Andries Botha: Those are not necessarily truths. Those are merely mechanism or device, systems can be held in some form of social equilibrium. It is necessary to break the law, when in fact the law opposed something which is not morely defensable. The laws of a country merely bind power in some sort of binary relationship with the citizens and I think there are justifiable reasons where in fact power itself acctually negates, the very thing that it actually was meant to actually bring into harmony. As a result of that, they are justifiable reasons to contest the validity of those laws and to break them especially when they violate the humanity that they are professed to actually respect and uphold.

by Andries Botha