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A court cannot let someone walk after a crime simply because the law itself is unjust. OK, pretty clear where you stand.

As they say, "An unjust law is no law at all". [1] Certainly an arguable point, but it's one I adhere to, and I think a lot of other HN'ers do as well.

If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

No, it seems to think that particular law is unjust, and as responsible citizens, they are duty-bound to fight it.

Capital punishment is inane, unjust, and difficult to justify in a message board thread? Wow!

If law is unjust, you change the law. It has happened in American plenty of times. ****, America was founded in part because an unjust law was imposed on us.

Doing so doesn't make Ortiz or Heymann responsible for the death; only for their own manifestly unjust prosecution.

Call your congressman if you feel the law is unjust He probably doesn't want to make the long-distance call to his congressman, given that he's in the Netherlands.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Particularly in low traffic stories this feels unjust and noninclusive. I really enjoy reading the comment threads at HN and some of the best comments come as replies to comments that are unlikely to get endorsed in this system.

Western world is not "equally unjust" as nobody is imprisoned for 2 years for protesting the head of state. The press is not "ignoring" any of the issues you raised - Wikileaks revelations, Gitmo prisoners and other events are extensively discussed in the press and nobody is being imprisoned for doing so.

We may be more a "nation of laws" than before 1984, but combined with punishments most people would consider unjust we've drifted toward being a police state. In my opinion, if there's one thing to take away from this terrible tragedy, it's that we need a commission to study this systemic effect and recommend ways to make the justice system more just.

But I am just irritated by the "better than thou" indignations echoed in media channels of the equally unjust western world that tends to ignore massive wrongdoings that are too inconvenient to the larger narrative.

That's not to say that all rules in their current incarnation are sensible and well applicable to the current state of affairs, but participation in the law system is not voluntary - you don't get to opt out just because you think it's unjust.

The problem is not simply that once prosecuted, defendants face unjust sentences. It's worse: the oversentencing creates a perverse incentive for prosecutors, turning run-of-the-mill incidents into high-profile vanity cases that lock the DOJ into pointlessly aggressive prosecutions.

I'm not a fan of freezing the assets of someone and then overwhelming their legal defense, but this puts the formerly privileged in the same situation that the poor have -- if you think this is unjust because it deprives people of adequate legal council then you should also believe it is injust that the accused poor also have a lack of adequate representation, but you'll never see that presented in Forbes.

I find it amazing how often supposedly substantive discussions about Wikileaks and Julian Assange go on without any explicit mention or acknowledgment of what I've always considered his central thesis: ---- "The non linear effects of leaks on unjust systems of governance [... ] The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie.

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The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."

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