Everyone has experienced pain, but we all deal with it differently. Some people try to avoid experiencing pain, for they are scared; while others accept their punishment and agony. Moral people tolerate their pain and trauma by making their traumatic experience meaningful and important. They learn from their punishment and try to provide insight. In the stories of Antigone and Boycott, Letter From Birmingham Jail, righteous people fought for their beliefs without violence and dealt with their suffering without hesitation.
In the letter, Letter From Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King talks about how people deal with conflicts like segregations and equals rights. She also talks about how there are different laws and different ways to deal conflicts. Some of the different laws are just law and unjust laws. “A just law is a moral law.” and “an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.”(Hart)An example of how moral person deals with conflict is when Martin Luther King was arrested for having a protest without a permit. Instead of him fighting with the police him, he just accepts his punishment and gets in the car peacefully. In the story, Montgomery Boycott, Coretta talks about how African Americans were treated on the bus and town in the 1950s. Coretta Scott King also talks about how Martin
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After her brother’s death, Antigone wanted to bury his body since no matter what her brother had done, he was still her brother. However, if she did bury him, it would be breaking the law King Creon had set up. Ismene kept telling and trying to persuade Antigone not to bury him but Antigone calmly tells her, “I will bury the brother I love. (Prologue, 69)” Even though Ismene told Antigone about the consequences of her planned action, Antigone was completely fine with