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1. Martin Luther king expressed the difference between just and unjust least. To do so, he pointed out to certain cases where something taped by the word “legal” was in fact, breaking the law completely. He used Adolf Hitler as an example for his argument. He explained how Hitler killed thousands of Jewish and it was something “legal”. But, what is legal about killing someone? That is exactly the ironic idea the MLK was trying to express in his letter. 

To me, an unjust law is a law that goes against the moral effect of something. A law that isn’t built to be applied to everyone as equal. 

2. Indeed, the distinction between these two laws is extremely important, because it is a way to let the people assimilate that not everything that is known as “legal” is actually like that. In the same order, not every act is necessarily an “illegal” act. To me, and as MLK explained in his letter, it depends on what is being labeled as legal or not. 

3. An example of an unjust law is the imposing of bails. To me, bails are in some cases, injustice because there are a lot of people that are now behind bars because they couldn’t pay their bails. However, if someone rich commits a crime and the judge sets that person a bail, that person is more likely to walk out free after paying his/her bail. But, what about the poor offender? That person has to go back to prison to serve a lot of time for a petty crime, just because he/she could pay their bail. 

A just law is infraction tickets. If you get caught speeding then you get a ticket and there is no way out. You will have to go to court to pay your ticket. 

According to Martin Luther King “A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.”