In a CBC interview,a noted environmentalist said that if he were forced to choose between the lives of the last breeding pair of whales and those of a boatload of men who were out to kill them,he would sacrifice the men to save the whales.He cited the war-crimes trials after World War II for the principle that immoral laws should be resisted to protect "the higher good." This position exemplifies which one of the following?
A) legal realism
B) legal positivism
C) the law of the sea
D) natural law
E) the law of equity

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The environmentalist's position exemplifies natural law, which holds that morality is inherent in the nature of things and that the law should reflect this inherent morality. In this case, the inherent morality is that the survival of a species is more important than the satisfaction of human desires. The position is not based on legal realism or legal positivism, which are concerned with the way laws are actually made and enforced rather than with their inherent morality. The law of the sea and the law of equity are specific legal doctrines that are not relevant to this situation.

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