Old fighter plane in Mobile, Alabama

An interesting practice question from the Law School Admission Test:

A well-known philosopher once articulated the method by which an action can be judged to be unethical: Imagine the consequences of everyone in society taking that action; if those consequences would be harmful to society, then the action is unethical. Yet it cannot be denied that, at times in the past, the intentional breaking of laws to draw attention to injustice has had beneficial effects in many societies. By the philosopher’s standard, however, these actions would be judged unethical because if everyone in a society disregarded its laws, chaos would result. Because it is every person’s ethical responsibility to fight against injustice in society, the philosopher’s method must be incorrect. 

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