1.According to MLK, how can we tell the difference between just and unjust laws? Understanding this questions is the most important part of this module, and I will ask it again during our second exam.
there will BE a difference between just and unjust laws when such laws deprives some individuals and on the other hands it benefits the other.
2.In your view, is this an important distinction (between just and unjust laws), do you think it makes a difference in the way someone (as an individual, or our society as a whole) lives their lives? Can it affect our politics?.
Yes. The distinction between unjust and just laws is very important not only within our society but also as an individual living his/her day to day life. As an individual and within our society, it affects us because we cannot tell for sure if whos side does our justice system favors. Is the rich or the poor, is it based on the color of the skin or is it based on his/her race or nationality. It makes us feel uneasy, confused and unsafe.On the other hand, it also affects our political system because most of the time our laws favor the rich and less for the poor which is very opposite to the saying that “those who less in life must have more on laws’.
3.Based on our discussion of Question 1, give an example each, of an unjust and just law, in the US today. Explain what makes it unjust or just (using MLK’s definition of those two types of laws).
. In example of just laws would be the taxing system, while the poor is taxed less, the rich is taxed more but in most times it can be circumvented and the rich their taxes at a low cost.In the same example a tax law becomes unjust when it charges more than it should or a specific individual who is engaged in a particular business is taxed solely for that business venture and not the other individuals engaged in the same business.