Those aren't reasons to act dishonestly and abuse other people. In fact, those are reasons to do the opposite - if you find the world so terrible, do something to make it better.
It's up to you and me. Nobody else is coming to save us.
It's up to you and me. Nobody else is coming to save us.
One way we can make the world better is by fixing the rules. Getting rid of ones that are unjust, and making the rest more consistent.
I once saw sign on a street: do not do something (do not remember what) and reference to a City Bylaw numbered as 37 thousand and something. That is just for one city. Good luck changing this sheer insanity.
And I think it is. At this quantity the quality will definitely suffer. Besides, I did read some bylaws at some point out of curiosity and without going into details many of them are outright unjust/deficient/etc (in my opinion of course)
The question of course is, peoples interpretations of which laws are just and unjust are subject to bias and individual incentives.
Incidentally, while I recognize thr popularity of this quote, its fairly ridiculous taken literally for laws which are prohibitory rather than obligatory.
Viewing a prohibition as unjust does not obligate me to violate the prohibition; believing people should be free from government constraint to do something doesn’t require me to do that thing.
“Disregard” or “discount” in place of “disobey” would be more generally valid.
So outlawing theft, rape, fraud, kidnapping, false imprisonment, etc. - that's all unjust?