In a CBC Interview, a Noted Environmentalist Said That If

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) Natural law
D) The law of equity
E) The law of the sea

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