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Originally Posted by HarryT
An "unjust law" is a contradiction in terms. "Justice" is the state which prevails when all laws are perfectly enforced.
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*IN* a utopia. However, even the most cursory reading would show that many laws are "unjust". In some areas of the US, from what I've read elsewhere, as high at 13%-14% of the laws on the books are "unjust". And in some countries, the "unjust law" rate runs to 70%-80% or higher.
Of course, this only becomes true for definitions of "justice" which match that of, say, OED.
And it also ignores the fact that one can have 'perfect' enforcement without having 'justice'. (Perfect enforcement implies no one breaks the law, not that the law is just.)
Derek