As we often hear in movies and other media, "laws are made to be broken." This is true, especially when the law being broken is morally unjust and requires a citizen to ignore or act unjustly towards his or her fellow citizens. Any law that requires this type of action is not beneficial to the common good of society and creates a conflict between a person's "good citizen" part and a person's "decent human being" part. While it may seem like laws like this simply don't exist, they are everywhere around us. They can easily be translated into reality through historical context. The laws passed by Germany during the Nazi regime were emotionally and physically unjust, with little room for justifications beyond the power of Adolf Hitler and his followers. These so-called “laws” required citizens to denounce their fellow citizens as Jews so that Hitler and his troops could remove them from society. In this situation the “good human side” overwhelmingly prevailed over the “good citizen” and the people challenged Hitler. To act morally right and assist Jewish refugees, citizens acted against man-made law and kept in line with the rest of the world's perception of natural law. Of course, it seems that the only time it is acceptable to defy a man-made law is when that law intrudes on important, all-encompassing laws affecting basic human rights. In the Nazi example, one could argue that Hitler's disobedience of law is justified on theoretical grounds because moral law always takes precedence over what might be constructed by a regime through the dangerous combination of hatred and power. In the time of the Nazis, the act of obeying such laws would have transformed the obedient party into violators of human rights... middle of paper... in a completely isolated stain on world history that demonstrates a pure and audacious intrusion into fundamental human nature and its rules. By ignoring basic freedoms and enacting laws that do not allow blacks to eat, sit, and drink in the same place as whites, the laws have created a constant cycle of injustice within America's borders. While these laws were not as extreme or destructive as the genocide carried out by the Nazis, they still provide examples of how governments create our perception of morality. In turn, they have continued to create evidence of how disobedience to such laws based on the “good human being” aspect of life is justified and more beneficial to society. The term “crime against humanity” is most commonly associated with grotesque war crimes, it is acceptable to apply it to legally justified crimes and written codes that ignore basic human freedoms.