Introduction
Unjust law is the one that denies the moral laws harmony. This law is usually not found in the natural law. It makes people uncomfortable and is usually found working hard to come against the law. These laws offend many people which create the need to bring solutions by the affected. Civil disobedience is doing contrary to the agreed law. Being imprisoned for impacting philosophical knowledge to people, attempts to escape from the prison to meet the opinion of the majority and poor payment for some gender are some of the forms of civil disobedience. There is civil disobedience in different aspects of life and strategies towards it can help to eradicate it.
During the last days of Socrates’ life, he had been accused for several crimes like corrupting the young people’s minds and criminal meddling. Later he was found guilty and this had opened the door for his death condemnation. He had preferred to face death rather than going to exile (Patterson, 18). Socrates is found wondering whether escaping from the law suit and offering cash to the people who would take part in the escape would be just to them and himself and Crito. He feels that it was not just at all and he had not been ready to practice injustice whatsoever.
There is also another way in which justice is coming out. This where Socrates seems unwilling to escape the prison with reasons that it would show that he had been guilty for corrupting the minds of people. He did this as a way of respecting the constitution (Alican, 379). He believed that the agreement made between him and the State of Athens had been just hence doing contrary to it would be injustice. This is had been a way of courage and righteousness rather that civil disobedience.
There have cases of improvement in terms of economical racism. Women have been facing this problem at work places but efforts to do away with the issue have enabled to improve this aspect (Bruns,n. p). In many cases recently, women are in the position to earn the same amount of dollars that any man could. The many cases of women being given inferior positions at work and also low payments have been declining with time.
There is however several instances that show injustice in the law. This involves disobedience of the civil laws. People have gone to an extent of coming up with the things they feel pleasing. When Crito visits Socrates in prison, he brings about the civil disobedience where he tends to convince Socrates to disagree with the laws of the land (Patterson, 16). He tells him to find a way of escaping from the prison to avoid the death. He had believed that it would have been better to Socrates if he had managed to escape and avoid death even though it meant to live in exile. This is a form of civil disobedience as it would be a cause of disobedience against the Athens law which Socrates had already agreed with. He preferred to face death rather that going to exile. This had been an agreement between him and the laws of Athens. Disobeying the law by Socrates would be a form of injustice since he knew everything and decided to abide by it.
There is a form of unjust law where Socrates is imprisoned for impacting knowledge to the youths. This is because he had sincerely not doing unjust but convicted of corruption and atheism (Alican, 300-379). He had been attempting to teach the youths much on philosophy. He faces threats that if would stop teaching the youths on philosophy, his life would have been spared but if he failed, death would follow. He exposes the anti-philosophical values of Athens when he makes a decision to exercise civil disobedience.
Socrates would not obey the order as a philosopher of stopping to impact knowledge in the mind of the youth. He knew that it was wrong to disobey the law which had been claiming that he would face death after denial (Patterson, 16). He does not make any attempts of obeying it whatsoever. This shows acts of civil disobedience even when he had been put in prison. He had also denied it during the trial. Socrates stopping to impact knowledge on the youth is unjust because he had not been doing wrong things. As a philosopher, he attempted to do what he seemed right by making the youth bright.
There is a form of unjust law whereby some people are discriminated in terms of economical activities. In most cases, women are given low pays and also they are the ones who get low paying jobs compared to men (Bruns, n. p). There are also high cases of women getting opportunity gaps in the black community as compared to the whites. Denial of better job opportunities is a way that portrays civil disobedience as no law has authorized this.
Civil disobedience is seen where people crave to leave their homeland claiming that they are looking for peace from other countries. This is a great form of disobedience. Crito yearns to move away from his hometown to escape from the many cases of injustices found there (Patterson, 18). He is determined to get freedom thereby ignoring the attachments and obligations of his homeland. This shows that he is doing contrary to the laws of the land.
There is abuse of the law where people choose to disobey the government. They tend to make their own laws which they follow. In the Mexican war, people had gone to an extent of using the government as an instrument for out and inset (Thoreau, n. p). People had been choosing execution of their will through the government. The government had been abused by the people of the land.
Conclusion
The failure of Socrates to escape from prison by giving money to those who would assist him and a believe that his failure to escape from the prison is a way of showing respect to the constitution and righteousness are some of the aspects that show lack of civil disobedience. However, people are used act in ways like denial to obey what the laws demand. This has been seen with a case of Socrates where he denies stopping his philosophical work as preferred by the law regardless of being threatened to face death. People also have been disobeying the government thereby doing as per their will and neglecting its laws and need to escape from own lands with claims of getting freedom from other areas. Finally, there is the fact of injustice whereby women have been getting low plays and poor job positions compared to men.
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