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There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society maintain that the illegal blocking of access to an abortion clinic amounts to justifiable has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobedience. However, it is a precariously short leap from this sort of civil disobedience disobey and resist unjust laws. to physical confrontations with clinic workers, then to the infliction of property damage, According to this statement, each person has a duty to not only obey just laws but also then to the bombing of the clinic and potential murder. disobey unj ust ones. In my view this statement is too extreme, in two respects. First, it In sum, because the inherent function of our laws is to balance competing interests, wrongly categorizes any law as either just or unjust; and secondly, it recommends an reasonable people with different priorities will always disagree about the fairness of ineffective and potentially harmful means of legal reform. specific laws. Accordingly, radical action such as resistance or disobedience is rarely First, whether a law is just or unjust is rarely a straightforward issue. The fairness of any justified merely by ones subjective viewpoint or personal interests. And in any event, law depends on ones personal value system. This is especially true when it comes to disobedience is never justifiable when the legal rights or safety of innocent people are personal freedoms. Consider, for example, the controversial issue of abortion. Individ uals jeopardized as a result. with particular religious beliefs tend to view laws allowing mothers an abortion choice as unjust, while individuals with other value systems might view such laws as just. Anyone can make things bigger a