Political Obligation Is The Obligation To Obey The Law

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Political obligation is the obligation to obey the law because it is the law. Authority rather than argument is the reason of obedience. However, having a political obligation does not necessarily mean that one has to obey the law always, even when it .


The difference between "being obliged" to obey the law and "being under an obligation" to obey the law.

While the first one means that due to a threat upon you to act however the diktat wants you to or else you will be punished for disobedience. Like a bully who threatens the weak student to act as per his wishes.

Being Under an Obligation, on the other hand, implies that there is a universal moral order of right and wrong that everyone agrees with and everyone should commit to it. This …show more content…

In Syria People were forced to risk their lives and leave everything dear to them behind and take a small boat. The harsh conditions they lived in made any suffering they might go through more bearable than the hell they ran away from. No one should be forced to leave their home land for any reason. No one should be forced to watch their kids get swallowed by the waves of the sea. 

Harry Beran ( 1987), accepts the claim that only express consent can generate a political obligation, That is, states should require their members openly to undertake an obligation to obey the law or to refuse to do so. Those who decline the obligation will then have the options of leaving the state, seceding to form a new state with like-minded people, or taking residence in a territory within the state reserved for dissenters.


When I watch the news about Syria I can not help but wonder: “Who gave the Syrian -so called- president the right to murder thousands of people and force them to leave their homes into the unknown just because the are not willing to “Obey” him and accept his policy? 

Because of that question Syrian people got divided into two teams. One that thinks that the “decent, safe life” that the president has provided has made every person in Syria in a dept to him. Therefor, obeying the rules is the simplest thing they can do to return the favour. Which is really similar to Socrates reasoning with gratitude being one of the considerations he relies on in justifying why he will not disobey the jury that sentenced him to death. 

I find that ridiculous because if we were to presume that the there are things we have to consider first. For example, the free schools the government provided for the people was more of a forced favour, because even those who do not want to go to school are obliged to go to school and study because of the

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