Hi, I’m Mingkun (Bruce) Wu.

Mainly taking issue with the conjunctive nature of King’s criteria for determining just laws, I argue that these criteria are not defined clearly enough to be generalized. I then extend this critique to show that his criteria for just law can be internally contradictory and lead to a dilemma. Following from this discussion, in the second part, I point out that King’s way of establishing the moral obligation to obey or disobey laws is currently too inadequate to be applied more generally, as more nuances need to be considered before establishing negative moral obligation.

Zooming in on government orders such as mandatory mask-wearing during public health crises, I argue from an instrumentalist view that we do have obligations to obey such orders. However, the extent to which this obligation is ‘special’ depends on which concept of obligation we employ.

As a commentary on Kronecker’s quote, I first demonstrate in this short piece the idea that given the set of natural numbers, we can ‘arbitrarily’ construct all other sets of numbers. Secondly, I show how the set of natural numbers, is somehow ‘provided’.