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Laws which are inconsistent with promoting the extension of human life can be ruled to be unjust.

> Laws which are inconsistent with promoting the extension of human life can be ruled to be unjust.

So outlawing theft, rape, fraud, kidnapping, false imprisonment, etc. - that's all unjust?

Don’t those laws promote human life? And by life, we can definite it to be a “self-moving power”, as Plato defines it in his Laws.