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Are we ever morally justified in disobeying laws we consider to be immoral

permitted to break laws which we feel to be immoral or unjust in order to protest about their existence. In any situation we may at least seek moral justification for our actions, before we seek legal justification, after all why would we face both conscience and consequence when there is a choice between the two. Therefore it seems that if there are situations where we are legally justified in breaking the law then at those times we must also have found moral justification to do this as well.I believe that we must be morally justified in disobeying laws, which we find immoral. If we obey such laws then we simply break our own code of morality and make ourselves immoral by our own standards. Not only this, but it is interesting to note that recent history has shown, in the case of retrospective legislation regarding Nazi war crimes, that our moral justification for breaking the law may later be legally vindicated....

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