Should there be different moral standards governing ordinary citizens' duty to obey the law/ duty to disobey unjust laws and the duty of those who work for the state in a bureaucratic capacity to carry out or implement the law, their orders, the policies that are set by policymakers?

Note that this question requires a) taking a stand on what citizens' duties are (to obey the law unconditionally? to disobey unjust laws? when?) and b) taking a stand on whether bureaucratic officials have duties that differ from your answer to (a) (and whether, how, why). So you could say "Citizens have a duty to disobey unjust laws but bureaucrats have a duty to carry out policies even if they're unjust," or the other way around; and then your thesis would be "different standards." You should object to that with an argument for "similar standards." Or you could argue that "everyone has a duty to disobey unjust laws and policies" or "everyone has the duty to obey", and in either case your thesis is "similar standards" and you should object with an argument for "different standards."

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The question based on the Political Science and it is an essay question in which we discusses about whether or not different moral standards be there for citizens to obey, or disobey various laws and then bureaucratic capacity to implement laws, orders and policies. This has been discussed in the solution in detail.

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